Rose Bowett

“Openness and sincerity were prized above all else under a governing practice of radical tolerance, in which speaking about anything at all could yield only benefit and in which secrets could develop only into shameful wounds.”
― Lillian Fishman, Acts of Service

“What one longs to do above all, I think, is to reinvent appearances, make it stranger, and more exciting. That's what's so extraordinary about Velazquez: he reinvented the very outline of appearance. You only have to look at the way things are in his paintings. He managed to come back to appearance by way of something that lay quite outside the kind of illustration that was expected of him at the time.”
― Michael Peppiatt, Francis Bacon in Your Blood

“Each scene felt unreal and strangely distant, as though I were viewing it through two or three layers of glass, but the events had undoubtedly happened to me.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“If I have left a wound inside you, it is not just your wound but mine as well.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood