Dan

“My memory is to the world as a drawing is to the photograph. Imperfect. More perfect. We remember what we must, what we choose to, because it is more beautiful and real than the truth.”
― Christopher Ruocchio, Empire of Silence

“The artist sees things not in terms of what is or might be, but in terms of what must be. Of what our world must become. This is why a portrait will—to the human observer—always defeat the photograph.”
― Christopher Ruocchio, Empire of Silence

“Men are slower to act from principle than self-interest, and far slower to act on principle than jealousy or revenge.”
― Christopher Ruocchio, Demon in White

“To love is in part the attempt to become a creature worthy of love.”
― Christopher Ruocchio, Howling Dark