Shana

“I was once present at a lecture that Eugene Smith gave to some students at a school of photography. At the end, they protested because he had made no mention of photography, but had spoken the whole time about music. He calmed them by saying that what was valid for one was valid for another. —Henri Cartier-Bresson”
― Sam Stephenson, Gene Smith's Sink: A Wide-Angle View

“I believe in tragedy,” Shelby responds coldly. “Not miracles.”
― Alice Hoffman, Faithful

“Mortals may not believe in magic in the way they did centuries ago, but they merely call it a different name,” Merrick said from my other side. “Artists and poets—and many others—still draw on inspiration and imagination. They make the fantastic real. And what is that if not magic?”
― Jocelyn A. Fox, The Crown of Bones

“When I opened a book now, I was seized with desperation. I felt as if I was madly in love. It was as if I were in a confession booth and the characters in the book were on the other side telling me their most intimate secrets. When I read, I was a philosopher and it was up to me to figure out the meaning of things. Reading made me feel as if I were the center of the universe.”
― Heather O'Neill, Lullabies for Little Criminals