Dawn

“The schools wear the blank faces of war buildings, their windows blown blind by rocks or guns or mortars. Their plaster is an acne of bullet marks. The huts and small houses crouch open and vulnerable; their doors are flimsy pieces of plyboard or sacks hanging and lank. Children and chickens and dogs scratch in the red, raw soil and stare at us as we drive through their open, eroding lives.”
― Alexandra Fuller, Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood

“I wasn't interested in drinking beer or vodka or smoking cigarettes or doing all the other things Greta thinks I can't even imagine. I don't want to imagine those things. Anyone can imagine things like that. I want to imagine wrinkled time, and forests thick with wolves, and bleak midnight moors. I dream about people who don't need to have sex to know they love each other. I dream about people who would only ever kiss you on the cheek.”
― Carol Rifka Brunt, Tell the Wolves I'm Home

“Silence is beautiful, not awkward. The human tendency to be afraid of something beautiful is awkward.”
― Elliott Kay

“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.”
― Pablo Picasso