Drawings

Doodles galore with quotes attached. Please note that some of these have been inspired by another artist and/or piece. Feel free to ask.

as my story came to a close, I realized that I was the villain all along.

just don't speak

They always say that your dreams will come true...but aren't nightmares dreams too?

How can one so small have a destiny so great?

Here she lies; trapped between who she is and who she longs to be.

I write to give myself strength. I write to be the people I'm not. I write to explore all the things I'm afraid of.

Breathe. Rest here for just a minute. It's okay.

some days are harder than others

"Don't take for granted the love this live gives you. When you get where you're going, don't forget to turn back around and help the next one in line. Always stay humble and kind." - Tim McGraw

"Don't underestimate me. I know more than I say, think more than I speak, and notice more than you realize." - anon

Then I heard a whisper...you were meant to live for so much more.

"Where there is no imagination, there is no horror." - Arthur Conan Doyle

they came from the darkness and brought more with them.

what if sanity was a choice? is reality really better than this?

why does the voice have to be "bad"?

it was raining

The key to your salvation or the beginning to your end. Will you continue?

can you hear them screaming? they can hear you...

you can't run forever. it's only a matter of time

you're suffocating us both with your bull*

I am tired anxious depressed angry confused stressed...

Isn't it hilarious.

it's so loud

"The question is not what you look at, but what you see." - Henry Thoreau

One way to combat anxiety: Name 5 things you can see, 4 you can feel, 3 you can hear, 2 you can smell, and 1 you can taste.

"Isn't it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back everything is different." - C.S. Lewis

"The future lies before you, like a field of fallen snow. Be careful how you tread it, for every step will show" - Doris A. Wright

you're never too old to believe in fairy tales

"It's okay to be scared. Being scared means you're about to do something really, really brave." - Mandy Hale

"A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor." - FDR

"...and if you close your eyes, does it almost feel like you've been here before." - Pompeii

"Your story isn't calm.

The road has been chaotic at times, filled with detours and rain and loss so sudden and soon. Sometimes the bliss was so elevated your heart could hardly hold it. Sometimes it was maddening to have and then to lose. You earn soon enough that it hardly ever goes as planned- gentle, easy, smooth. But that, my friend, is what make you fascinating. You have something to tell. Something courageous. Something true. You're made of stories within stories within even more stories. Those quiet depths of you."

-Victoria Erickson

"Your wings already exist. All you have to do is fly..." - anon

(see "Fun With Stanzas" in blurbs)

you can't see me

"I took a walk in the woods and came out taller than the trees." - Henry David

"the only weapon time has against us is regret" - anon

"What's broken can be repaired. What hurts can be mended. No matter how dark it gets; the sun rises." - Meredith Grey

"Sometimes you have to accept the fact that certain things will never go back to how they use to be. But that's what memories are all about." - anon

"When things are falling apart, they may actually be falling into place." - anon