pictures Quotes

“Once they had liked painting pictures with chemical fire, swimming in the canals in the seasons when the wine trees filled them with green liquors, and talking into the dawn together by the blue phosphorous portraits in the speaking room.”

″‘My great-grandmother, Bisabuela Beatriz...’ That was when I began to think of her as my Bisa Bea. And I wanted her picture. ‘Hey, Mama, can I keep the picture? It’s so pretty. She’s like a doll. Can I keep it?‘”

“Tom had never seen the like. He had never been in gentlefolk’s rooms but when the carpets were all up, and the curtains down, and the furniture huddled together under a cloth, and the pictures covered with aprons and dusters; and he had often enough wondered what the rooms were like when they were all ready for the quality to sit in. And now he saw, and he thought the sight was very pretty.”

“We’d seen the pictures of a bunch of really mad white people with twisted-up faces screaming and giving dirty finger signs to some little Negro kids who were trying to go to school. I’d seen the pictures, but I didn’t really know how these white people could hate some kids so much.”

″‘It’s another picture of that man,’ said Elsbeth. ‘My little sister saw one yesterday and thought it was Charlie Chaplin.’ Anna looked at the staring eyes, the grim expression. She said, ‘It’s not a bit like Charlie Chaplin except for the mous tache.’ They spelled out the name under the photograph. Adolf Hitler.”

The story and the pictures make you want to see the lovely gardens, Japanese bridge, and lily pond for yourself.

“As they stared at the picture, it seemed to glow and to open, and to become not a picture but the mountain itself.”

″ Love how the last pictures escalades before the very last page. And the play on words in the middle are pretty funny.”

“You can look at a picture for a week and never think of it again. You can also look at a picture for a second and think of it all your life.”

“Often misunderstood in his time, Wilson Bentley took pictures that even today reveal two important truths about snowflakes: first, that not two are alike, and second, that each one is startlingly beautiful.”