"I know what it's like...to have kissed the darkness, in all its pretended false light. To have danced with it and called it friend, lover, father... Those deep chasms of feeling were only ever my very pure feelings echoing back to me. The thing itself is empty and it serves to leave me low. To take until there is nothing left of me but ash. The devil wears the most beautiful armor. I have fallen so deep into his blue eyes I lost sense of who I was. Or is it truly that I have it all wrong? Am I condemning a saint when truly the devil is me? Did I kiss an angel and fault him for evils not made by his own will? Who can say? These echoes of the flurry of our interaction torment me so. It's the dance...the clear and present sound of his voice that haunts me. His breath on my neck... His gentleness rivaled only by his controlled violence. The twisting and bending and submission. Low, I am not his contortionist. And he is not my magician. This thing that's been done won't always crush me. All the pretty promises have fallen away. I am the only thing that remains. The blindfold has come down and it is here, beyond the fires of my initiation that clarity is bitter as wormwood. The lesson is here: tigers should not dance with tigers. It only ever ends in violent passion or death. Ours ended with the latter." ~author K. Day
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"It'll be bad...real bad...until it's not.
There's nothing for it, child. You've been down this road enough times to know that. This trail of tears is your place and count your moments every time you're blessed enough to step off of it for a time. But such is your somber destiny, and it's here, the constant turning and returning. Say you not that you know no stability... Sadness. That is your stability. That is your one constant. Now up, get up, and drag that heavy thing you call your heart further on down the road. There is nothing for you here. And the devil waits for no one." ~author K. Day *photographer Beau Vincent model K. Day |
AuthorPresently my works are published here on my official website The Alchemist and the Butterfly and have been printed and published a few times in anthologies and magazines, two of which can be found in The Library of Congress (The earliest of which from when I was 14). Just a few of my most notable quotes..."Show me where grows the wildest parts of you. It's there I will plant my message."
~ K. Day, 2016 "And just like that, she decided to make each scar count, every shortcoming an unplanned miracle, every broken seam a window... And in an instant she was changed forever." ~K. Day, 2017 "When your whole world is upside down, just learn to walk on your hands. At least your feet are in the clouds. After all, isn't that as good as flying?" ~K. Day, 2017 "May the ripples of my good deeds be such that those who know my name will see me dancing on the edge of their thoughts, even long after my body is gone." ~K. Day, 2015 "He who leaves himself behind wears a different sort of crown." ~K. Day, 2017 "Artists tend to dig our own graves with our tongues... we passionately lack the ability to hold them when we see truth." ~K. Day, 2014 "People underestimate the POWER of transparency, the triumph of exposure, the honor in openness." ~K. Day, 2015 "We birth our ideas, nurture and then send them out into the world. Very much so are our works our children, we who are the artists and the thinkers and the scientists... there is an innate understanding that once we release them, they no longer belong to us. We have to be willing to let them go. And if we prepared them well, surely what comes back to us will sound like praises and feels not so dissimilar from the way a parent feels, swollen with pride for their children." ~K. Day, 2015 "The greatest story ever told is us. It's all of us. Never stop telling it." ~K. Day, 2014 "My heroes don't wear capes; it would just get in the way of their wings." ~Kat Day, 2013 "Growing up, I was the little girl with unicorns on my bed and skeletons in my closet." ~K. Day, 2014 "I was 19 and I already knew who I was." ~K. Day, 2011 "Art's voice hasn't gotten stronger...but I think more people are listening. And that's the perfect time to show them a mirror." ~K. Day, 2015 "Don't lean against mirrors. You might fall in. Always avoid cracks in the ground. Don't linger in doorways or walk under ladders. And never wear crosses unless you're sure a vampire is stalking you." ~K. Day, 2015 {satirical excerpt from a work in progress} "I'd sooner chase a thousand adventures with you than admit to being an adult for one hour on a good day. You slay the dragons - I'll do the housework. It's a good trade." ~K. Day, 2012 "If we wear our rain boots when we wade through our dreams, how will we ever forget we have feet? How will we remember we can fly? Caution is over-rated." ~K. Day, 2015 "Sometimes you can see yourself falling a split second before it all comes crashing down around your ankles...and sometimes, you don't want to stop falling." ~K. Day, 1999 "The woman is a ferocious beast. She shines so bright it hurts to look too close. Yet her bones are like glass, her heart light as air. Her words are like roots that meander through the neglected places of the mind and her tongue is only sharp when their pourage is too cold." ~K. Day, 2015 "We'll ultimately discover that we are little more than figments of our own imaginations." ~K. Day, 2015 "When we have all forgotten how to be human, we should ask the animals. They have always been best at reminding us who we really are." ~K. Day "Maybe we should wear our hearts on strings so we don't get our boots wet... No? It doesn't make sense. It doesn't make sense to tiptoe around love either. Real love is ugly beautiful messy. We have to learn to appreciate the mess." ~K. Day, 2015 "For all that is a part of me, for all of which I am comprised, I am grateful and hope to honor that through my gentleness toward myself and the world around me." ~K. Day, 2015 "I'm not afraid to die over the truth. I'm afraid to live in a lie." ~K. Day, 2013 "And they took from him his golden crown which shined so bright it taunted the darkness and shadowy things. They covered it with dung and sticks and placed it back upon his head saying, 'See what has been done here...we have saved you, the darkness will forget you.' But then so did all the world. Woe to the day that evil determined no bird shall keep for himself his own gilded wings." ~K. Day, 2015 "Remember, there is always light in dark places. So long as people draw breath, they will search for their truest selves, which is love." ~K. Day, 2015 "Never stop shining, even through times of tears and bitter words. For it is often when we are our most vulnerable that we are also at our most beautiful. And what an honor for all of those who are allowed to witness you rise, again and again. The breath of love propel your life always forward, the heart of a mother and a father beat ever steady in your chest, and may your memory long surpass your body through the mouths of those who knew you." ~ K. Day, 2015 "I will confound them. I will rattle their gilded cages and shake their very foundations. I will make myself so present the world will never be the same again." ~K. Day, 2015 "Expectation... I learned it can steal one's joy. This applies just as much to life as to tending the land. We understand that the seed is designed to grow and what elements should facilitate for that growth. But nature is beautifully imperfect and it's taught me that each seed has it's own internal clock, which differs even from its brother's. The plants are not so unlike us. Expectations kill everything. We must observe and participate in a constant state of childlike wonderment if we wish to know the true potential of nature." ~K. Day, 2016 "And then she told them all they had to do all along was believe in themselves. It was the only way." ~K. Day, 2016 Archives
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