Joni

“Images trigger response. Images create impressions. But images are ambivalent. Images cannot carry an argument or imply a critical interpretation. We just bring the criticism ourselves. So every time we see spectacles of military power, or terror-driven bloodshed, we can ask our Acela: What do these images want from me? And who grows more powerful if I give it?”
― Tony Reinke, Competing Spectacles: Treasuring Christ in the Media Age

“The Beauty of the House is immeasurable; its Kindness infinite.”
― Susanna Clarke, Piranesi

“How lucky Drew was to have this mother of hers, this constant, reliable, if at times irritating presence in her life--this mother, like so many other mothers, beloved and blamed. Lucky she was to have experience, through her mother, the twisted intricaciesof deep, and deeply complex, love.”
― Daphne Kalotay

“He walked through the woods like a young Adam, naming creation.”
― Geraldine Brooks, Caleb's Crossing