Junior Diver

“If I have an unusual gift, it’s not that I draw particularly better than other people — I’ve never fooled myself about that. Rather it’s that I remember things other people don’t recall: the sounds and feelings and images — the emotional quality — of particular moments in childhood. Happily an essential part of myself — my dreaming life — still lives in the light of childhood.”
― Maurice Sendak

“Your eyes, brilliant as shop windows Or as blazing lamp-stands at public festivals, Insolently use a borrowed power Without ever knowing the law of their beauty.   Blind,”
― Charles Baudelaire, The Flowers of Evil / Les Fleurs du Mal

“Between 1950 and 1970, the suburban population doubled from 36 million to 74 million as 83% of the nation's population growth took place in the suburbs.”
― James W. Loewen, Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism

“She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.”
― Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God