Artist Sarah Long

I know they think I’m strange. I don’t dress up much and I don’t go to Starbucks and I don’t talk to people about things that suck. But what they don’t know about…

Love can’t exist when fear is in the way… Fear. The separate self… The voice that tells you lies about who you are and what you’re capable of. The voice that wants to…

Like, you know the feelings of a new crush? When it’s so fresh and the sex, it’s so good at first. So you want it all the time and it feels like a…

I wasn’t always this way. But. People change. Or do they? Maybe we just become byproducts of who we think we should be. I dunno. I’m just daydreaming’ about all the things I…

  The lines around my eyes that hides the pain I’ve been in… But I don’t think about my lines the same way I did. Now I like my lines. They remind me…

My peach pale skin with blemishes from the zits I had when I was a kid… From all the sadness and all the anger. All the grief that built up inside my lungs…

I put makeup on today to cover up my face, that way there, when other people look at me, they won’t see what I see. They’ll see what I want them to see….

I put makeup on today to cover up my face. But I know it’s not the real me, and now I wonder why I would do such a thing. Maybe it’s me trying…

How long does it take for the human being to realize that being naked in public isn’t right? What age do we start to feel the feelings of shame in our bodies? When…

Self-destruction can be a long process. Like, if you really wanna break the habit of being yourself, you gotta take down the trees in your forest of sad stories… You gotta get to…