Dannii Elle > Recent Status Updates

"Lust was a colour, but fear was a sensation. Clammy hands or cold sweat were obvious markers, but more often it was some sort of multi sensory incongruity. Like seeing sun and smelling smoke, or feeling silk and tasting bile. Sounds that rose out of unseeing darkness."

"Really there was nothing more dangerous than a woman who knew her own worth."

"Beware the man who faces you unarmed. If in his eyes you are not the target, then you can be sure you are the weapon."

"Nothing extraordinary is ever done out of reason or logic, but because it's the only way for your soul to breathe."

"It's true that people do the most desperate things for those they love. Some might even call it a sacrifice - maybe that's what people believed when I jumped into the sea in place of Shim Cheong. But I think it might be the other way around. I think it would be a sacrifice to do nothing."

"Do you know how much I love you, Miki?" Dai whispers softly. "Even I don't know. My love for you is endless. Deep and endless, like the sea."

SOBBING!

"Don't chase fate, Mina. Let fate chase you."

"Humans are fickle, violent creatures. Because they fear their own deaths, they are driven to war, scouring from the earth in seconds that which takes years to grow."

"not all storytellers are grandmothers, but all grandmothers are storytellers."

"The myths of my people say only a true bride of the Sea God can bring an end to his insatiable wrath. When the otherworldly storms rise from the East Sea, lightning breaking the sky and waters ripping up the shore, a bride is chosen and given to the Sea God.

Or sacrificed, depending on the measure of your faith."

What an opening paragraph!

"Who are you to laugh at me?"
She weighed his height, his weight, his strength. "Your death."

"All I have ever wanted is to fight for what is good and clean and bright. All I want is to know who I am and where I belong."

"Being here is like standing at the edge of the sea under a wide sky: clear, open, clean, and bright. Here is where I am meant to be."

"I've never known a horse to be wrong about the heart of a man."

"This pitiful pair could not survive alone without banditry; nor could they survive banditry itself. They would be dead in a week. So fragile to be so feared by folk."

"The urge to roam increased upon her like thirst."

How I felt this line echo within me!

I'm loving the multitude of perspectives and how each opens up the school scandal but also their more personal and diverse struggles.

"Is that too much to expect? That I would name the stars
for you? That I would take you there? The splash
of my tongue melting you like a sugar cube? We’ve read
the back of the book, we know what’s going to happen.
The fields burned, the land destroyed, the lovers left
broken in the brown dirt."

"The man on top of you is teaching you how to hate, see you
as a piece of real estate,
just another fallow field lying underneath him
like a sacrifice.
He's turning your back into a table so he doesn't have to
eat off the floor"

"Mirrors and shop windows returned our faces to us,
replete with tight lips and the eyes that remained eyes
and not the doorway we had hoped for."

"water teaches flexibility and power
earth expresses firmness and balance
air sings of intelligence and bravery
fire speaks of action and growth"

"she’s an explorer,
unafraid to travel
within her heart and mind,
ready to discover new spaces
to heal—releasing burdens
and planting wisdom wherever
her awareness takes her"

"love cannot cause pain; attachments cause pain."

“why are we here at a time when there is so much misery and despair?”

she responded,

“because you answered the call. the earth signaled for heroes, and the heavens sent forth the ones who were most ready to grow and unleash their unconditional love. you’re here to shine the light of your own healing, to offer the world the gift of your balance and peace.”

"now that she lived her life in
the grassy field between mortality and the
infinite, she could feel that the space in
her heart was the same as the heart of
the earth and the heart of the universe."

"progress
is when we
forgive ourselves
for taking so long
to treat our bodies
like a home"

"she believed that the damage
to her mind and heart was permanent,
until she met wisdom, who taught her
that no pain or wound is eternal, that all
can be healed, and that love can grow
even in the toughest parts of her being"

"some people hit rock bottom before
they change themselves drastically
because at that distance they can
best see who they really want to be"

"sometimes
we feel like exploding—
not because of anything
or to hurt anyone

but simply
because we are growing,
releasing,
letting the old parts die,
so that new habits,
new ways of being,
have space to live

(shedding)"

"The sky above them was dappled with more stars than he could count, a thousand diamonds dropped into an inkpot."