Polly March

“I know I'm a photographer, but if someone else says I'm that, it changes things because what they think about me isn't what I think about me.”
― Caleb Azumah Nelson, Open Water

“A story, I had learned, through my own constant knitting and reknitting of remembered words, can lead us back to ourselves, to our lost innocence, and in the shadow it casts over our present world, we begin to understand what we only intuited in our naivété - that while all else may vanish, love is our one eternity. It reflects itself in joy and grief, in my fathers sudden knowledge that he would not live to protect me, and in his determination to leave behind a part of himself - his spirit, his humanity - to illuminate my path, give light to my darkened world. He carved his silhouette in the memory of the sky for me to return to again and again.”
― Vaddey Ratner, In the Shadow of the Banyan

“Why are you like this?" he said. And he was really asking. Expecting some explanation, some logical equation— x had happened to her, some terrible thing, and so now y was her life, and of course that made sense. But how could Alex explain— there wasn't any reason, there had never been any terrible thing. It had all been ordinary.”
― Emma Cline, The Guest

“It’s a gift to imagine heaven, and a rebirth to actually glimpse it.”
― Vaddey Ratner, In the Shadow of the Banyan