schmorie

“In my low periods, I wondered what was the point of creating art. For whom? Are we animating God? Are we talking to ourselves? And what was the ultimate goal? To have one’s work caged in art’s great zoos—the Modern, the Met, the Louvre?”
― Patti Smith, Just Kids

“I gathered up my notebooks and found among them the copy of Sylvia Plath’s Ariel that Robert bought me when we first met. I felt a fleeting pang in my heart for I knew that innocent phase of our life had passed.”
― Patti Smith, Just Kids

“Where does it all lead? What will become of us? These were our young questions, and young answers were revealed. It leads to each other. We become ourselves.”
― Patti Smith, Just Kids

“You hurt me. You were meant to be kinder than you were. You were meant to be better. And I was owed more than this. And you let me down, when I thought you
were the only one who wouldn’t.”
― Iain S. Thomas, Every Word You Cannot Say