Come if you're coming and leave the nametag...

-xx

Quoted: Mario Puzo {Fools Die}

But you're the toughest son of a bitch I've ever seen.

You never let anybody get near you. 

You never let anybody know what you really think.

-xx

I came in like a lamb...

But I intend to live like a LION.

-xx

Quote: Sade {Bullet Proof Soul}

Quoted: Francesca Lia Block

She said, You cannot hide forever, though you may try. I’ve seen you in the kitchen, in the garden. I’ve seen the things you have sewn — curtains of dawn, twilight blankets and dresses for the sisters like a garden of stars. I have heard the stories you tell. You are the one who transforms, who creates. You can go out into the world and show others. They will feel less alone because of you, they will feel understood, unburdened by you, awakened by you, freed of guilt and shame and sorrow. But to share with them you must wear shoes you must go out you must not hide you must dance and it will be harder you must face jealousy and sometimes rage and desire and love which can hurt most of all because of what can then be taken away. So make that astral dress to fit your own body this time. And here are glass shoes made from your words, the stories you have told like a blower -with her torch forming the thinnest, most translucent sheets of light out of what was once sand. But be careful; sand is already broken but glass breaks. The shoes are for dancing, not for running away.

-xx

-I need her books. 

Learning how to love is like learning how to tie your shoes...

and that’s precisely why I wear slippers. 


-xx

Quote: Jarod Kintz

Quoted: Francesca Lia Block

What shall we do, all of us? All of passionate girls who fear crushing the boys we love with our mouths like caverns of teeth, our mushrooming brains, our watermelon hearts?

-xx

Quoted: CVMN

to catch a butterfly there's a distinct balance between the level of passive effort and designed refrain, to know when is the exact moment to gesture towards it slowly, to be allowed enough grace for it to want to shift from flower to your wrist.

-xx

Quoted: Anais Nin

-xx

Pieces & Things: Sometimes comfort doesn't matter...

When a shoe is freakin' fabulous, it may be worth a subsequent day of misery. 

Soak in Epsom salts and take comfort in the fact that you're better than everyone else.  :)

-xx

Shoe: Chi Yuen A/W 2012 

Quote: Clinton Kelly

Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.

-xx

Quote: Jonathan Swift

Quoted: Jack Kerouac

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Quoted: Tallulah Bankhead

The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it.

If I had to live my life again I'd make all the same mistakes - only sooner.

-xx

Quoted: Addie Michelle O-Keys

Addie Michelle O-Keys ..isn't that a great name? It sounds stage-y & regal. 

Addie's a FB friend of mine and also an avid reader of The Erra of Arre.

I happen to know a few people who regularly stop by ..but most aren't vocal with their opinions. 

So, when I woke up to this message from Addie and found that my blog truly inspires her, I was elated. 

She said: "Your blog is awesome...!! had the tab open for abt 2 days now... I am finally at your day 1/1/2011 post... Great stuff!! Got 10000001 inspirations from all the posts I have read so far. Never been so into a blog. Just thought to let ya know. Kudos! Hope 2012 is a greater year for you. ♥"

I guess this is also a good time to wish my blog a Happy Birthday!!!

It turned 2, this past October on the 15th. 

I didn't make a big fuss about it because at the time I was having trouble keeping myself inspired. 

I wanted to change the layout, but didn't know how. I was losing all motivation.

 ...so I went to Tumblr to juice up. 

[but Tumblr's like ..an overcrowded nightclub where everyone wears the same thing. *le pew*]

The Erra of Arre, however, is my baby. & forever will be. 

2 years of my life is embedded in this blog. 

& I'm really grateful for all you who read and enjoy it. :) 

Here's to growth for us all! *besos* < & a kiss. 

-xx

Quoted: "Eleven Minutes" by Paulo Coelho

I am what people call life, 

Although you call it death, 

I am what people call Law, 

Although you call it Delinquency, 

I am what you seek

And what you find.

I am what you scattered

And the pieces you now gather up.

-xx

Writings on the wall: Lose Some, To Win Some

So we, ain't we
It's me, and her
'Cause what she prefers over me, is work
And that's, where we, differ
So I have to give her
Free, time, even if it hurts
So breathe, mami, it's deserved
You've been put on this earth to be
All you can be, like the reserves
And me? My time in the army, it's served
So I have to allow she, her, time to serve
The time's, now for her
In time, she'll mature
And maybe we, can be, we, again like we were
Finally, my time's too short to share
And to ask her now, it ain't fair
So yeah..

What I love most about Jay-Z's lyrics, is that I can listen to them over and over and they're still refreshing. 

There's always something to learn. Something that I've missed. ...or something that relates to something that I've learned outside of his lyrics that now gives me a new understanding of what I'm listening to. I can't say that I relate to everything that he speaks about but sooner or later ...I find myself nodding in agreement. 

We've* been put on this earth to be all we can be like the Reserves. 

& I have to allow you, your time to serve.

-xx

Quoted: John Steinbeck

Maybe-- maybe love makes you suspicious and doubting.

Is it true that when you love a woman you are never sure--

Never sure of her because you aren't sure of yourself?

-xx

Quoted: Masha Orlov

[Photo: model in London]

[Source: Jak & Jil]

It's very hard for me to find people who truly understand me because I have so many layers.

In France, women are referred to as coeur d'artichaut (artichoke hearts) because the artichoke is filled with so many layers and it's constantly opening and you keep picking.

-xx

Quoted: Pastor Kelly

[Photographer: Lakin Ogunbanwo]

"The main difference between us is that men are after respect and women need love (a woman feels most respected when she is loved. Men feel most loved when they are respected.) Without love, she reacts without respect. Without respect, he reacts without love. It's a cycle - the crazy cycle."

-xx

Quoted: Leo Tolstoy

I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love. I felt in myself a superabundance of energy which found no outlet in our quiet life.

-xx

Quoted: Eartha Kitt

Eartha: Yes. I fall in love with myself. 
And I want someone to share it with me.
 I want someone to share me with me.
-xx