Victoria

“And, if you can't have what you need, you take what you want. Accept damnation. It has its power and its charm. You love the whole damned world in the alien, not quite accurate image of yourself.”
― Jane Rule, Desert of the Heart

“If this is what it is to burn, he thought, then I will be worth more as scattered ash than any of my unscathed pieces.”
― Olivie Blake, Alone With You in the Ether

“You love all the world, little fish. You think god made even the desert for you to swim in. But you want to be free.”
― Jane Rule, Desert of the Heart

“The sitter is merely the accident, the occasion. It is not he who is revealed by the painter; it is rather the painter who, on the colored canvas, reveals himself.”
― Antonia Angress, Sirens & Muses