Softwear

“The wind blew cold, and he was freezing, but he did not notice that he was freezing, for within him was a counterfrost, fear.”
― Patrick Suskind, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

“Ambivalence and contradiction energize nearly every figure Michaelangelo carved, from the adolescent Madonna of the Stairs onward...But the four allegories atop the sarcophagi raise them to a symphonic crescendo. Each is a battleground of conflicting emotions and motives, in which will and paralysis battle for supremacy.”
― Eric Scigliano, Michelangelo's Mountain: The Quest For Perfection in the Marble Quarries of Carrara

“It has taken stealth and some underhandedness. It has taken clarity of purpose when the moment called for dreamy abandon. He has practised withdrawal.”
― Lisa Moore, February

“The lake was a shield of beaten brass flung down in the valley under a full sun.”
― Jane Urquhart, The Stone Carvers