Rachel

“I saw the bumpy shape of my skull, I saw myself shorn and revealed. I wandered in a dream around the city, glimpsing in shop windows a strange creature with my face.”
― Helen Garner, Monkey Grip

“Facts are like cows. If you look them in the face long enough, they generally run away.”
― Dorothy L. Sayers

“I'd missed something obvious in over thirty years of reading and two thousand science fiction books: there was no place stranger than here.”
― Richard Powers, Bewilderment

“Become a great artist. That is the only way to justify what you are doing to everyone's life.'... I did not understand what he meant. I did not feel I had to justify anything... I did not want to paint in order to justify anything, I wanted to paint because I wanted to paint. I wanted to paint the same way my father wanted to travel and work for the Rebbe. My father worked for Torah. I worked for - what? How could I explain it? For beauty? No. Many of the pictures I painted were not beautiful. For what, then? For a truth I did not know how to put into words. For truth I could only bring to life by means of color and line and texture and form.”
― Chaim Potok, My Name Is Asher Lev