Quotes

"I was sitting with my kids having dinner and suddenly the building was just dancing in the air." -Majida Ameer on 2017 Baghdad earthquake

"I've changed from drawing him with ink to drawing with charcoal, because it's more tentative, more frayed, more worn. Ink, from the start, knows what it wants to say; charcoal listens."

"He's watching me drawing and smiles. There are two kinds of smiles (among many others): one that is waiting to hear the payoff line of a new joke, and another that is recalling a joke heard. His is the second."

"Behind the mask under the large nose, a mouth and larynx that speak from the ravine about hope. I've drawn what I can."
--John Berger, Portrait of a Masked Man


"If the oldest wasn't who she was supposed to be, then what did it mean for the rest of us?"

"She's not evil about it, but having him around forces her to think about things she'd rather not, which is essentially what family members do, at least the family members my sister and I know."
--David Sedaris, Repeat After Me