#vanishing acts

[woundgallery]

Ana Mendieta

[mea-lingua]

Quote mix: self deception

Above all, don’t lie to yourself. He who lies to himself and listens to his own lie reaches a state in which he no longer recognizes truth either in himself or in others, and so he ceases to respect both himself and others.

- Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

You can fool yourself, you know. You’d think it’s impossible, but it turns out it’s the easiest thing of all.

- Picoult, Vanishing Acts

“The fact is that we have no way of knowing if the person who we think we are is at the core of our being. Are you a decent girl with the potential to someday become an evil monster, or are you an evil monster that thinks it’s a decent girl?”

“Wouldn’t I know which one I was?”

“Good God, no. The lies we tell other people are nothing to the lies we tell ourselves.”

- Landy, Death Bringer

[haleyincarnate]

Jodi Picoult, Vanishing Acts

[id-rather-be-writing]

Which of your characters like lemon in their water?

I feel like this tells a lot about someone....

[thinkingimages]

Tanya Rusnak | Vanishing Acts, Ghost II (into the ether), 2018

[annelisreadingroom]

Got this one from the book swap trolley at the local library. Hopefully it's a great read.

[muraqiba]

What other words, we may almost ask, are memorable and worthy to be repeated than those which love has inspired?

Henry David Thoreau, “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”

[woundgallery]

Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Untitled, 1966, gelatin silver print on paper