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…Adelaide considered that perhaps she’d done exactly what she claimed she wanted to do: started again.

She is forever, revisiting the fact of her life, trying to imagine it had the choices been different.

“That we are human. Of value. Important.”

Ellen Emma Armstrong stands among these extraordinary conjurors as America’s first African-American woman magician to ever headline a magic show. She was born on December 7, 1905 in Spartanburg, South Carolina.

Bess always believed in Harry’s vision and shared his passion for magic.

She soon discovered that performing magic was healing for her. The awe and wonder she created for her audiences lifted her spirits.

You’re a hell of a man. “Sano como una manzana”.

We came from Ireland when I was a boy. Everyone went their own way, eventually. He said it with no emotion or regret.

If one person sees a thing, it could be a hallucination. If two people see it chances of reality improve exponentially.

The clearer the memory, the better the art. The purer.

By then, … ten or twenty million had grown to a hundred and fifty million or so. War is good business, Invest Your Son.

My inheritance is grief and sunlight, and the ability to choose which to hold on to.

“Maybe some people die gradually, move away from their bodies overtime, but others - people who shine- go in an instant. You can see their souls until the last possible second, fill the gap in the world, the second they’re lost.”

How to draw a picture (IV)— Start with what you know, then reinvent it. Art is magic, no argument there, but all art, no matter how strange, starts in the humble everyday.

As part of her independent streak, Laura had created an annual outing. It was called the Chickless Mothers. Women like herself, who did not have loving or demonstrative families.

They keep asking me am I part of the New Poor. I don’t know where they heard the term but they love it.

“Can anyone of your sex-mad older generation realize that people in their twenties can be friends these days?”

… at that moment, the world remained dark, quiet, caught in its own moment of “dormiveglia”.

Gratitude only emphasized the depth of your lack, so she tried to hide it.

“We had simply been young people once. We didn’t get the benefit of a phase of life where rebellion and recalcitrance and moodiness were expected or excused. Hopefully, Bahar wouldn’t become a rebellious American teenager.”

“For a while, we did the Persian tarof dance where he was self-deprecating and apologetic for his tea, and I insisted it was the best I’d ever had.”