Michelle

“The Photograph is violent: not because it shows violent tings, but because on each occasion (i)it fills the sight by force(i), and because in it nothing can be refused or transformed (that we can sometimes call it mild does not contradict its violence: many say that sugar is mild, but to me sugar is violent, and I call it so).”
― Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography

“The past is never dead. It's not even past.”
― William Faulkner, Requiem for a Nun

“I love you to pieces, distraction, etc.”
― J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey

“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”
― Anais Nin