Dirge Without Music

Quote 2020-02-242020-02-24 Miss Poison Mourning, Quotes Death, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Grief, Loss, Mourning, My Mother, Poetry, Quotes, Remembering

“I am not resigned to the shutting away of loving hearts in the hard ground. So it is, and so it will be, for so it has been, time out of mind: Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely. Crowned With lilies and with laurel they go; but I am not resigned. … Continue reading Dirge Without Music

My Mother’s Daughter

Image 2020-01-172020-01-18 Miss Poison Images/Photos/Quotes, Writing Grief, Life, Loss, My Mother, Poison In Lethal Doses, Remembering, Truth, Writing

Today is the anniversary of me losing an angel I was gifted with. A unique, perfect, pure angel. I will probably cry myself to sleep tonight because I MISS HER so much. She truly taught me how to be the best version of myself, how to be a mother, and how to be a bigger … Continue reading My Mother’s Daughter

When You Start Thinking…

Quote 2017-07-222017-07-22 Miss Poison Quotes Chuck Klosterman, Dissonance, Living, Nostalgia, Quotes, Regret, Remembering

“When you start thinking about what your life was like ten years ago--and not in general terms, but in highly specific detail--it's disturbing to realize how certain elements of your being are completely dead. They die long before you do. It's astonishing to consider all the things from your past that used to happen all … Continue reading When You Start Thinking…

There Are Edges…

Quote 2017-07-062017-07-06 Miss Poison Quotes Depression, Katie McGarry, Memories, Memory Loss, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, Quotes, Remember, Remembering, Sadness, Trauma, Traumatic

“There are edges around the black and every now and then a flash of color streaks out of the gray. But I can never really grasp any of the slivers of memories that emerge.” ―Katie McGarry