Dreams

"You can't stop young girls from wishing. No! Everyone must dream. We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming -- well, that's like saying you can never change your fate." -Amy Tan

"Now, women forget all those things they don't want to remember, and remember everything they dont' want to forget. The dream is the truth." -Zora Neale Hurston

There is something fashionably awkward about these old photos, no? It's like they're so wrong they're right. In the second photo my glasses appear too large for my head, I'm wearing a soccer t-shirt from, no joke, fourth grade, and it looks as though I'm about to burst into tears faster than you can say "pimple." But all these elements sort of come together to create a pretty nifty image. Not to mention the natural sunlight that comes in from the high windows in my room. Oh, to be 17 again. It wasn't that long ago, I'm only 20. But these images feel so distant to me now.