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“But then again, there’s nothing intrinsically valuable about any kind of art. That’s not me complaining or making light. It’s one of the most wonderful aspects to art—the fact that people decide what is beautiful. We don’t get to decide what is food and what is not. (Yes, exceptions exist. Don’t be pedantic. When you pass those marbles, we’re all going to laugh.) But we absolutely get to decide what counts as art. If Yumi’s people wanted to declare that rock arrangements surpassed painting or sculpture as an artistic creation…well, I personally found it fascinating. The spirits agreed.”
― Yumi and the Nightmare Painter
― Yumi and the Nightmare Painter
“I only stare," he said. "when I see something too beautiful for my eyes to take in at once.”
― Yumi and the Nightmare Painter
― Yumi and the Nightmare Painter
“(Technically, I was a part owner of that noodle shop. What? Renowned interdimensional storytellers can’t invest in a little real estate now and then?)”
― Yumi and the Nightmare Painter
― Yumi and the Nightmare Painter
“This was art. Something the machine, however capable in the tech- nical details, could never understand. Because art is, and always has been, about what it does to us. To the one shaping it and the one expe- riencing it.”
― Yumi and the Nightmare Painter
― Yumi and the Nightmare Painter
“She remembered days of exhaustion when all she’d wanted was a kind word, a teardrop’s worth of empathy.
Choice. She had a choice.
'You don’t have to be like her,' Yumi thought. 'You really don’t.'
Such a novel idea, and so much harder to do than she would ever have assumed. Still, Yumi forced out the words. The ones akin to those she always wished she could have heard.
“It’s all right,” she whispered. “I know you’re trying. That’s what matters.”
― Yumi and the Nightmare Painter
Choice. She had a choice.
'You don’t have to be like her,' Yumi thought. 'You really don’t.'
Such a novel idea, and so much harder to do than she would ever have assumed. Still, Yumi forced out the words. The ones akin to those she always wished she could have heard.
“It’s all right,” she whispered. “I know you’re trying. That’s what matters.”
― Yumi and the Nightmare Painter
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