"But sometimes," she spoke with a sudden passion that was reverent and gentle, "the books and the music and the poetry. They don't start talking to you until life nicks you up a bit. The best art is the art that pulls at you and with it's bare hands invites you in just as you are and talks about your demons. Life has a funny way of hurting you and then healing you. They don't always come in any order or in a specific way. They just come and often it's because we are hurt we understand the chorus, the verse, the stroke, and the artist. That is why art is important, but pain--yes pain--is essential."
