Susan Howard

“If families resemble trees, as they say, arborescent structures with entangled roots and individual branches jutting out at awkward angles, family traumas are like thick, translucent resin dripping from a cut in the bark. They trickle down generations.”
― Elif Shafak, The Island of Missing Trees

“I think that sometimes we need permission to stop and adore, and a work of art grants us that.”
― 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

“Beware, beware three maidens fair
With bloody hands and divine air.
Help not the girl whom others blame
She’ll burn the world to ash and flame.
Trust not the girl with the golden crown
She’ll take what’s yours and watch you drown.
And my Lily Maid will scream and cry.
She’ll break them both and then she’ll die.”
― Laura Sebastian, Half Sick of Shadows