" They're just paintings. Pretty enough, but just paintings. They aren't expressions or emotions...or me. I mean they told us to paint landscapes and I obeyed; I painted landscapes. Landscapes that belong on walls in living rooms, or above bedroom dressers. They don't belong to me. They aren't paintings to show the world who I am, what I am. "

― Jackson Pearce , As You Wish (Genies #1)