"You can't dance to paintings. This is something Ben said, during one of our White Cube conversations, back when I was still wrong about him. He said it even though, at the time, he was desperately try..."
- Sara Baume
"Art, and sadness, which last forever."
"I was wrong to try and impose something of my humanity on you, when being human never did me any good"
"Blending into the tinctures and textures of the countryside. The tree which falls without any human hearing still falls, as the creatures who die without being found by a human still die."
"I see foxes often, but always they are crossing fallow fields in the distance. Gold flecks on faraway expanses of green. Magnetic to the meandering eye. Enigmatic, unreachable."
"My mother likes odd numbers and is suspicious of the even ones. She reads a new book every week and is bewitched by black holes in the universe. She describes herself as an optimist but she worries ab..."
"I decided that if I didn't allow myself to fall asleep, then I wouldn't have to wake up again and despair."
"There really isn't much wrong with me,' I say, 'it's just that, well, I'm not like other people; I don't want the things they want. And this is not right, I mean, in other people's eyes, and I feel as..."
"So it's as if,' I say, 'I'm okay in my own bones, but I know that my bones aren't living up to other people's version of what a life should be, and I feel a little crushed by that, to be honest, a lit..."
"But I know I will do neither; nothing. I have all the time in the world, and yet, I can't be bothered."