Portrait in Sepia

“In the end, the only thing we have in abundance is the memory we have woven. Each of us chooses the tone for telling his or her own story;” 

“I would like to choose the durable clarity of a platinum print, but nothing in my destiny possesses that luminosity. I live among diffuse shadings, veiled mysteries, uncertainties; the tone for telling my life is closer to that of a portrait in sepia.”

(Isabel Allende, from the epilogue of “Portrait in Sepia”)