Larissa Castellano

“I wonder if my readers know the colour of that "darkness seen by candlelight." It was different in quality from darkness on the road at night. It was a repletion, a pregnancy of tiny particles like fine ashes, each particle luminous as a rainbow.”
― tanizaki junichiro, 阴翳礼赞

“I was surprised that someone like him could have such eclectic tastes, that he could be historically inclined and access a larger world through the cracked screen of his outdated phone. I couldn’t help but wonder if he’d cobbled together this collection just for me, to prove he could.”
― Noor Naga, If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English

“I'm sometimes not sure which is the more remarkable: life lives up to great paintings, or that great paintings live up to life.”
― Patrick Bringley, All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me

“I was supposed to be part of a story, but I fell from there like a leaf in autumn.”
― Orhan Pamuk, My Name Is Red