"Maybe she, like me, would have loved the tiny details and inconveniences even more dearly than the wonders, because they are the things that prove you belong."
— Tana French (In the Woods)


Every child is an artist.  The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up. 
 ~Pablo Picasso


"What I am telling you, before you begin my story, is this -- two things: I crave truth. And I lie. "
— Tana French (In the Woods)


When my daughter was about seven years old, she asked me one day what I did at work.  I told her I worked at the college - that my job was to teach people how to draw.  She stared at me, incredulous, and said, "You mean they forget?"
  ~Howard Ikemoto