Shaylie Roach

“You live by what you thrill to, and there's the end of it.”
― D.H. Lawrence

“The human soul needs beauty more than bread.”
― D.H. Lawrence

“I'd forgotten, I said to him, how relieving the anonymity of city life could be. People weren't forever having to explain themselves here: a city was a decipherable interface, a sort of lexicon of human behaviour that did half the work of decoding the mystery of self, so you could effectively communicate through a kind of shorthand. Where I had lived before, in the countryside, each individual was the unique, often illegible representation of their own acts and aims. So much got lost or mistaken, I said, in the process of self-explanation; so many words failed to maintain an integral meaning.”
― Rachel Cusk, Transit

“It's not art for art's sake, it's art for my sake. ”
― D.H. Lawrence