Jensen

“I can survive, a solitary creature. I have thus far. But just the thought that someone else might care what fate befalls me- it changes everything.”
― Joy McCullough, Blood Water Paint

“No matter how many layers of paint pile one, I will always be the sketch beneath. Useful, even crucial, but never what’s admired by the world.”
― Joy McCullough, Blood Water Paint

“Because he is a monster. But he’s strong and powerful, and from most perspectives, he’s on the winning side. She has to ask herself – and women have asked themselves this question for centuries – would she rather be suffocated slowly for the rest of her life, or die quickly trying to accomplish something.”
― Joy McCullough, Blood Water Paint

“But that day's not now.
And even if this horror
becomes an accent color -
a smudge of lead white
to highlight a cheekbone,
a bit of yellow ochre
the glint on a sword -
sometimes those are the pigments
that change one's perecption
of an entire work of art.”
― Joy McCullough, Blood Water Paint