There's kind of a Sleeping Beauty magic about the kid. I thought I'd done something toward breaking the spell. Seems not. Prince C...harmless, that's me.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Daddy? That's another kind of prison.... It's not the prince at all, but my father drunkenly bent over my bed, circling the abyss like a shark....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The thirteenth fairy, her fingers as long and thin as straws,... her eyes burnt by cigarettes, her uterus an empty teacup, arrived with an evil gift.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When society comes to value one child more truly, we shall have, for every community, a country homestead where that child can go,... who needs special encouragement. It will not be a penal place, nor even a place of reform, but it will be held out, rather, as a dear delight and a reward. But when society values the child enough, and realises what the child means to the State, and what the home means to the child, it will provide even better, for then the child will have, in its own home, all that a home should give.... There will be safety. There will be the chance to be well, to be pure; room to grow and breathe in; the sacred privacy of the home circle--all those things that are the birthright of every child. And there will be, in some way, beauty, to which the soul of the child naturally turns, as does a plant to the light.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Beauty consists of an eternal, invariable element, whose quantity is excessively difficult to determine, and of a relative, circum...stantial element, which will be, if you like, by turns or all together, the era, its fashion, its morals, its passions.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always found s...atisfaction.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The past is interesting not only for the beauty which the artists for whom it was the present were able to extract from it, but al...so as past, for its historical value. The same goes for the present. The pleasure which we derive from the representation of the present is due not only to the beauty in which it may be clothed, but also from its essential quality of being present.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »