Past Secrets

She’d punished herself enough for the past.

Now it was time to work out who the real Faye was and to enjoy life again. She’d punished herself enough for the past.

‘I work on the belief that you’ve got to learn by other people’s mistakes, because you never live long enough to make them all yourself,’ Saul remarked.

Could you ever truly know somebody you loved? Could you ever know what went on in their minds when they lay in the dark beside you under the covers?

Maggie realised that meeting your demons head-on meant you could see they weren’t the huge, dark monsters of your nightmares, but just stupid, pathetic people who’d had power at the time and had used it against you.

‘In another world, Carey, in another life, you and I could have been together,’ she said.

Everybody had secrets and dramas in their lives, they just didn’t wear them on their faces.

Stop thinking of how everyone else would live your life in your shoes. You have to live it,

Looking backwards is a terrible thing,’

Yes, Amber, Botticelli is a good example. Remember, girls, artists didn’t have television to give them ideas, or films. They looked at their world for inspiration and got it from nature. Keep that in mind during the exam, they were influenced by their times. By war, poverty, nature, religion. As we discussed in art history last week, religion is important as an influence on artists. Remember the puritanical Dutch schools with their hidden messages.