Jasmine

“Sometimes just to paint a head you have to give up the whole figure. To paint a leaf, you have to sacrifice the whole landscape. It might seem like you're limiting yourself at first, but after a while you realize that having a quarter of an inch of something you have a better chance of holding on to a certain feeling of the universe than if you pretended to be doing the whole sky.”
― Nicole Krauss, The History of Love

“(P)eople’s good intentions can wind up putting us in boxes as confining as coffins.”
― Gayle Forman, Where She Went

“Good people are good people; religion has nothing to do with it.”
― Jodi Picoult, The Storyteller

“A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.”
― Gilles Deleuze, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia