Ashley

“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
― Søren Kierkegaard

“Lee could assemble an entire history from the photos that would tell any version of the story she wants. But back then, that first summer in Paris, she didn't yet know the power of pictures, how a frame creates reality, how a photograph becomes memory becomes truth. 

Or Lee could tell the real story: the one where she loved a man and he loved her, but in the end they took everything from each other - who can say who was more destroyed?”
― Whitney Scharer, The Age of Light

“I don’t know how [books] accumulate like that. They’re part rabbit, I think.”
― Beatriz Williams, Overseas

“A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche