Quotes from work

Just Kids

“I immersed myself in books and rock 'n' roll, the adolescent salvation…”

“We learned we wanted too much. We could only give from the perspective of who we were and what we had. Apart, we were able to see with even greater clarity that we didn’t want to be without each other.”

“I imagined myself as Frida to Diego, both muse and maker. I dreamed of meeting an artist to love and support and work with side by side.”

“So my last image was as the first. A sleeping youth cloaked in light, who opened his eyes with a smile of recognition for someone who had never been a stranger.”

“Both of them were ahead of their time, but they didn't live long enough to see the time they were ahead of.”

“I thought to myself that he contained a whole universe that I had yet to know.”

“I understood that in this small space of time we had mutually surrendered our loneliness and replaced it with trust.”

“He took twelve pictures that day.
Within a few days he showed me the contact sheet. "This one has the magic," he said.
When I look at it now, I never see me. I see us.”

“Why can't I write something that would awake the dead? That pursuit is what burns most deeply.”

“We went our separate ways, but within walking distance of one another.”

“Paths that cross will cross again.”

“Everything distracted me, but most of all myself.”

“Later he would say that the Church led him to God, and LSD led him to universe. He also said that art led him to the devil, and sex kept him with the devil.”

“What is the soul? What color is it? I suspected my soul, being mischievous, might slip away while I was dreaming and fail to return. I did my best not to fall asleep, to keep it inside of me where it belonged.”

“We wanted, it seemed, what we already had, a lover and a friend to create with, side by side. To be loyal, yet be free.”

“We never had any children," he said ruefully. "Our work was our children.”

“I wish I could just project everything on the paper”

“What will happen to us?" I asked. "There will always be us," he answered.”

“I don't think," he insisted. "I feel.”