Still She Haunts Me Quotes

“Everything that flickered could be made permanent. That was what drew him to photography, what made every painstaking step worth it: the permanence of the image. That was what fascinated him, the working against time...”
― Katie Roiphe, Still She Haunts Me: A Novel of Lewis Carroll and Alice Liddell

“The Paradox: how do you lose something you never had?
The answer: There was another way to have. A transparent stretch of space between you. To love from a distance, through that space, more deeply, more colourfully, so it can be seen from faraway like a flag. Eventually the spave itself fills you. The air entering your body and replacing your blood, running through you. The halfßpleasant feeling of not being here.”
― Katie Roiphe, Still She Haunts Me: A Novel of Lewis Carroll and Alice Liddell

“Why do you need to turn everything on its head, Charles”, he used to ask him, half annoyed and half wondering, “isn't the world beautiful and harmonious as it is?”
― Katie Roiphe, Still She Haunts Me: A Novel of Lewis Carroll and Alice Liddell