Quotes from Whitney Otto

All this because one race did not have the decency to be ashamed of dealing in human flesh.

What no one tells you about having children is that it isn't tbe physical demand thry make in your life that affects your art, it's the emotional space they fill, crowding out your art. So even when you have the time to work, you're still mentally occupied.

If I photograph you in the shadows, you become mysterious, perhaps unknowable. If I light you from above, so your eyelashes throw shadows on your cheeks, you could be a Hollywood film star.

The images enhanced, then negated each other. Nothing was fixed. Nothing is any one thing really, and isn't that the beauty of it all?

She believed, as others did, that a camera was good for more than recording the world. A photograph wasn't a response to something; it was something.

HIM THE ONLY REASON TO GO TO SCHOOL!!! <3

Money buys things that people with money never even realize they've bought, like time and freedom. -- Whitney Otto

These things are not glorified, just recorded. Tattooed on the heart; burned into the family's history. This piecing together of the life of your child; this homage, this attempt to put it all in order; and even though you will one day wish for the heartbreak to leave you, it never will.

Keep these things in mind: history and family. They are inseparable. In the 20th century you feel all those things that went before have very little to do with you, that you are immuned to the past by the present day. All those dead people and conflicts and ideas-why, they are only stories we tell another. History and politics and conflicts and rebellion and family and betrayal. Think about it.

A pattern, by its very nature , should repeat. It is your nature as well, to do as your mother did. As much as you hate it, as much as it grieves you.

There must be some place along the route, a halfway house in time, where the runners may pause and ask themselves why they run, what is the prize and is it the prize they really want?

Don't panic. If you write, you'll be a writer.

Read The Story of O . Convince yourself that it was in fact written by a woman or someone who thinks like a woman.

Once you love, you cannot take it back, cannot undo it. What you felt may have changed, shifted slightly, yet still remains love.

Why are old lovers able to become friends? Two reasons. They never truly loved each other, or they love each other still.

The best men tell you the truth because they think you can take it; the worst men either try to preserve you in some innocent state with their false protection, or are 'brutally honest.' When someone tells, lets you think for yourself, experience your own emotions, he is treating you as a true equal, a friend…And the best men cook for you.

she eventually forgave him, because she understood him.

she is admired from afar. These admirers court her in secret, in the safety of their dreams.

Once you love, you cannot take it back, cannot undo it; what you felt may have changed, shifted slightly, yet still remains love. You still feel-though very small-the not-altogether unpleasant shock of soul recognition for that person.

No one knows how another person feels in private.

You have to choose your combinations careful. The right choices will enhance your quilt. The wrong choices will dull the colors and hide their original beauty. There are no rules you can follow. You have to go by instinct and you have to be brave.

The worst dream of the night, when you are parted from someone you love and you do not know exactly where he is, but you know that he is in the presence of danger. You are tormented by a desire to keep the one you love safe.

The truly terrible thing about this life, was not knowing what you want, but only able to recognize what you do not want. You have to spend so much time and energy trying to find it out, time that other people spent in pursuing of their desires.

All you have to go on is the faith of a kiss.