A silence passes between them, brittle and porous, like old bones.
Europe spends more on facial fillers than the world spends on research into emerging infectious diseases.
The bits I wanted to edit out are the bits I needed to keep
Hard edged thinking
‘She liked the saints, angels, miracles and mysteries, and the fact that, for Catholics, 'anything can happen to anyone.’
In the 1860s photographers everywhere advertised their services with the slogan "secure the shadow ere the substances fades".
The weight of a life/ the air smells of stone
‘What did she hope for, he wondered, as she scrutinised these men over plates of oysters, fish tacos and bone marrow?’ A Big True, Dinah Nayeri
Many Andean cultures practised the curious art of cranial deformation - binding a child's head to achieve a particular shape. Living at opposite ends of the canyon, the Collaguas and the Cabanas traced their origins back to different mountains and their ideal head shapes reflected the profiles of those peaks. The Collaguas tried to achieve a pointed shape, like the summits of the Collaguas mountains, while the Cabanas wanted more of a flat-top look like Ampato, which looms above the canyon.
Some people have started to call her a "star" since the news broke, she says. "When I was young, a 'star' meant a film star, but now when I think of stars I think of the stars in the sky, which is where you go when you're dead. And I don't want to be that kind of star." Marlene Dumas
