Bianca Burlacchini

“Our lives are one masked ball.”
― Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera

“my real love has always been the sleep that rescued me by allowing me to dream.”
― Luigi Pirandello

“Although we are necessarily concerned, in a chronicle of events, with physical action by the light of day, history suggests that the human spirit wanders farthest in the silent hours between midnight and dawn. Those dark fruitful hours, seldom recorded, whose secret flowerings breed peace and war, loves and hates, the crowning or uncrowning of heads.”
― Joan Lindsay, Picnic at Hanging Rock

“Any artist is insulted by the suggestion that art is merely a matter of recording reality, and knows that it is impossible to explain how imagination can transform not only events and people, but the artist as well, into quite different "realities".”
― Joan Lindsay, The Secret of Hanging Rock