Source: Girl, Interrupted (1994)
Context: I've gone back to the Frick since then to look at her and at the two other Vermeers. Vermeers, after all, are hard to come by, and the one in Boston has been stolen. The other two are self-contained paintings. The people in them are looking at each other -- the lady and her maid, the soldier and his sweetheart. Seeing them is peeking at them through a hole in a wall. And the wall is made of light -- that entirely credible yet unreal Vermeer light. Light like this does not exist, but we wish it did. We wish the sun could make us young and beauitful, we wish our clothes could glisten and ripple against our skins, most of all, we wish that everyone we knew could be brightened simply by our looking at them, as are the maid with the letter and the soldier with the hat. The girl at her music sits in another sort of light, the fitful, overcast light of life, by which we see ourselves and others only imperfectly, and seldom.
John G. Bennett The Crisis in Human Affairs
"Music When the Lights Go Out" (with Carl Barat)
Lyrics and poetry
“What a charming girl! And what a skin! She positively radiated light around her.”
Source: undated quotes, Renoir – his life and work, 1975, p. 150 : Recalling the model Jeanne Samary.
Ballad and Lyrical Poems (1923), "The Orange Tree"
Source: One Door Away from Heaven (2001), chapter 73, pp. 604, 605
Context: What will you find behind the door that is one door away from Heaven? […] If your heart is closed, then you will find behind that door nothing to light your way. But if your heart is open, you will find behind that door people who, like you, are searching, and you will find the right door together with them. None of us can ever save himself; we are the instruments of one another's salvation, and only by the hope that we give to others do we lift ourselves out of the darkness into light.
Source: Kiss My Tiara: How to Rule the World as a SmartMouth Goddess
“No doubt she was thinking, Who dressed this poor girl like a traffic light?”
Source: The Hidden Oracle
“Groups of girls are pretty, or not; they are seldom mixed.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
"Skies Don't Lie" (song)
("Skies Don't Lie" on YouTube (with lyrics)) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJToHBj8Eb4
Studio albums, Playing in the Shadows (2011)
