Simona

“He had to keep busy; he had to keep moving so that the sinews connected behind his eyes did not slip loose and spin his eyes to the interior of his skull where the scenes waited for him.”
― Leslie Marmon Silko, Ceremony

“He told her the flowers in her painting contained exactly the purple substance of the flowers on the desk in front of her [...] Let us open the window and see if your painting can entice the butterflies.”
― Sarah Hall, How to Paint a Dead Man

“It was a huge zoo, spread over numberless acres, big enough to require a train to explore it, though it seemed to get smaler as I grew older, train included. Now it's so small it fits in my head.”
― Yann Martel

“Personal effects: how irrelevant they are, how sad, how lost, how vagrant, without the force that gives them purpose.”
― Sarah Hall, How to Paint a Dead Man