azalea~

“Love was a room that appeared when you stepped into it.”
― Kaveh Akbar, Martyr!

“If you want to live, it's good to be friendly.”
― Art Spiegelman, The Complete Maus

“Art’s role (like philosophy’s) is not to criticize reality but to change it; and little change can be effected if art remains a cloistered domain.”
― Richard Shusterman, Pragmatist Aesthetics: Living Beauty, Rethinking Art

“She herself is a haunted house. She does not possess herself; her ancestors sometimes come and peer out of the windows of her eyes and that is very frightening.”
― Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories