7 Quotes by Emily Bernard

This was real life - no magic, only practice, commitment, and labor. This lesson, about life, about art, is one I am still learning.

This is marriage, I thought, or at least my marriage. It is not the stories of forbidden desire that thrilled me as a girl, or even magical rides through clouds and on dark waters. It is John’s right hand in mine, and his left one sure and steady on the wheel.

...in every scar there is a story. The salve is the telling itself.

...perpetuating the pain of the past. Is the telling the salve or the wound?

In order to narrate her own life, she needs another person to listen, to aid in the tending of her interior.

This was real life – no magic, only practice, commitment, and labor. This lesson, about life, about art, is one I am still learning.

The problem is not the visibility of dark skin, but who sees it and what the viewer feels motivated to do next.