A King To His Knees

Quote 2022-08-172022-08-18 Miss Poison Quotes Grace Willows, Love, Madness, Marriage, Memories, Quotes, Saint

“You are enough to drive a saint to madness or a king to his knees.” ―Grace Willows

Three

2022-06-20 Miss Poison Quotes, Sadness, Writing Grief, Honesty, Life, Loss, Love, Memories, Pieces Of Me, Poison In Lethal Doses, Quotes, Sadness, Vincent Van Gogh, Writing

“La tristesse durera toujours." [The sadness will last forever.] ―Vincent van Gogh The past four plus days have been a nightmare. First, I ignored a very obvious death sign. I won't explain it since most people are not believers, but it shakes me to my core. Between Thursday and Sunday, I lost three people. Two … Continue reading Three

There’s Something About A Place…

Quote 2022-04-222022-04-24 Miss Poison Quotes Cassandra Clare, Lord of Shadows, Love, Memories, Quotes, Soul

“There's something about a place you've been with someone you love. It takes on a meaning in your mind. It becomes more than a place. It becomes a distillation of what you felt for each other. The moments you spend in a place with someone… they become part of its bricks and mortar. Part of … Continue reading There’s Something About A Place…

For Every…

Quote 2022-02-102022-02-12 Miss Poison Quotes Growth, Happiness, Hope, Inspiration, Jay D'Cee, Life, Memories, Motivation, Painful Recollections, Philosophy, Quotes, Time, Truth, Wisdom

“For every pleasurable memory, we are bound to find just as many painful recollections.”―Jay D'Cee

I Know For Certain…

2021-05-202021-05-21 Miss Poison Emotional Pain, Loss, Mourning, Quotes Death, Emotional Pain, Leo Buscaglia, Loss, Love, Memories, My Uncle, Quotes

“I know for certain that we never lose the people we love, even to death. They continue to participate in every act, thought and decision we make. Their love leaves an indelible imprint in our memories.” —Leo Buscaglia It seems like yesterday. I blinked and the day was here. It has heartbreakingly been ten years … Continue reading I Know For Certain…

Lost Opportunities, Lost Possibilities

2021-03-262021-03-28 Miss Poison Quotes Haruki Murakami, Life, Memories, Missed Chances, Opportunities, Possibilities, Quptes

“Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back. That's part of what it means to be alive. But inside our heads - at least that's where I imagine it - there's a little room where we store those memories. A room like the stacks in this library. And to understand the workings of … Continue reading Lost Opportunities, Lost Possibilities

Suffering Silently

Image 2020-05-10 Miss Poison Mother's Day, Motherless Daughters, My Mother Memories, Mother's Day, Motherless Daughters, My Mother, Ukrainian

Borotʹba i strazhdannya bez tebe, mamo. My sumuyemo za toboyu. My lyubymo tebe. Dyakuyu za blahoslovennya, yaki vy nam nadislaly.

Birthday Wishes Straight To Heaven

2018-12-26 Miss Poison December December, Memories, Sadness

Z dnem narodzhennya, didusʹ. Proyshly, ale nikoly ne zabuly. 😪 #HardLosses #GrandpasGirl

Sometimes It’s The Retelling That Sucks

2018-06-172019-07-01 Miss Poison Father's Day, Writing Baseball, Father's Day, June, Memories, My Father, Poison In Lethal Doses, Writing

Saturday afternoon someone asked me what I was doing for Father's Day. I had actually forgotten that Father's Day was coming up, so this conversation was yet another reminder for me regarding the fact that my father has been gone for ten and a half years. Somehow, my brain just wasn't absorbing this holiday. Even … Continue reading Sometimes It’s The Retelling That Sucks