Emily

“Mr Berry: We are not childhood sweethearts, we are not in the first flush of youth, we are not Romeo and Juliet.
Mrs Berry: No ... we are the warring what's-their-names families of Romeo and Juliet.”
― Edna O'Brien, Haunted

“You ask: What is the meaning of "homeland"?

They will say: The house, the mulberry tree, the chicken coop, the beehive, the smell of bread, and the first sky.

You ask: Can a word of eight letters be big enough for all of these, yet too small for us?”
― Mahmoud Darwish, In the Presence of Absence

“That's how it begins, making a film, writing a book, painting a picture, composing a tune, generally creating something.
You have a wish.
You wish that something might exist, and then you work on it until it does.”
― Wim Wenders, The Logic of Images: Essays and Conversations

“I write about my own work because I want to speak for myself. I might not be the only authority, nor the best authority, but I want to participate in the writing of my own history. Why should artists be validated by outside authorities. I don't like being paternalised and colonised by every Tom, Dick or Harry that comes along (male or female).”
― Marlene Dumas, Sweet Nothings. Notes and Texts