Susan Howard

“I'm sometimes not sure which is the more remarkable: life lives up to great paintings, or that great paintings live up to life.”
― Patrick Bringley, All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me

“Because in real life, unlike in history books, stories come to us not in their entirety but in bits and pieces, broken segments and partial echoes, a full sentence here, a fragment there, a clue hidden in between. in life, unlike in books, we have to weave our stories out of threads as fine as the gossamer veins that run through a butterfly's wings.”
― Elif Shafak, The Island of Missing Trees

“Much of the greatest art, I find, seeks to remind us of the obvious. This is real. That's all it says. Take the time to stop and imagine or feel fully the things you already know.”
― Patrick Bringley, All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me

“You can live a fair share of adventures in other people’s stories.”
― Chanel Cleeton, The Last Train to Key West