Brianna

“A moon of startling brightness rose over the rooftops, lifted on a divine, invisible thread...”
― Susan Vreeland, The Passion of Artemisia

“But even one-way love, fleeting love, is better than no love at all. I’m grateful for having had the feeling.”
― Susan Vreeland, The Passion of Artemisia

“Palmira. She’s like an apparition floating unknowingly into her future,' I said. 'Here for too brief a time.”
― Susan Vreeland, The Passion of Artemisia

“Before this I had always held back, had never lived freely, not with Pietro, not even with Palmira, but here, where nothing was known, I did not fear judgment, and because Father and I shared the same sensibilities, all the rigidness of my living melted and I felt myself coming into myself. If it was genuine, if it would last, it was a wonderful feeling.”
― Susan Vreeland, The Passion of Artemisia