Emily

“Cameras miniaturize experience, transform history into spectacle.”
― Susan Sontag, On Photography

“To be alive is to be missing.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“The flesh is but
a sack of goo,
a feast for worms
to delve into.

Remember, mortal,
as you strive,
that you, ambitious goo,
must also die.”
― Rachel Hartman, Tess of the Road

“All memory is individual, unreproducible - it dies with each person. What is called collective memory is not a remembering but a stipulation: that is important, and this is the story about how it happened, with the pictures that lock the story in our minds. Ideologies create substantiating archives of images, representative images, which encapsulate common ideas of significance and trigger predictable thoughts, feelings.”
― Susan Sontag, Regarding the Pain of Others