Iulia Maria

“Sometimes just to paint a head you have to give up the whole figure. To paint a leaf, you have to sacrifice the whole landscape. It might seem like you're limiting yourself at first, but after a while you realize that having a quarter of an inch of something you have a better chance of holding on to a certain feeling of the universe than if you pretended to be doing the whole sky.”
― Nicole Krauss, The History of Love

“There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Mistral's Kiss

“One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.”
― Voltaire

“The worst thing you can do if you miss or need someone is let them know it.”
― Sarah Dessen, Lock and Key