Olivia Gonzalez

“The point of art is to look at our world and be moved by it, and then to engage in a series of attempts at clearly seeing that world, interpreting it, questioning it. In all these forms of engagement, a kind of purity of purpose must prevail. It cannot be a gimmick, it must at some level be true. Only then can we reach reflection, illumination, and finally, hopefully, epiphany.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Dream Count

“Looking at history through any single lens creates distortions, because history is too complex for any one way of looking to suffice.”
― John Green, Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection

“It feels so unbeneficial to pretend to like your life. Would you pretend to yourself or just to the world, and if you pretended to yourself too, then does the pretending become in some way real? And what, anyway, is real?”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Dream Count

“...and the symbol is nothing, while the reality is all”
― Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Mists of Avalon