Kate Holden > Quotes

“The righteousness of the flawed is frightening.”
― Kate Holden

“just because you’re afraid doesn’t actually mean there’s anything to be afraid of.”
― Kate Holden, In My Skin: A Memoir of Addiction

“Nakedness is nakedness. We all wanted comfort.”
― Kate Holden, In My Skin

“Suddenly I was in the middle of things. There were late nights staggering home from the pub, days of bumping into my friends in the street and going off for long afternoons of coffee and pool. Parties where I knew everyone. I was kissed up against walls, missed classes because I was in bed with a lanky, dreadlocked boy. We all had our noses pierced.”
― Kate Holden, In My Skin: A Memoir of Addiction

“I don’t know where I’ve gone—where I’ve gone.’ The world was cracking around me. I was so small. A flood of shame spilled from my eyes. ‘I’ve lost myself—I’ll never get out. Where’s my island? Where’s my island gone?”
― Kate Holden, In My Skin

“We "home in on" something; the button on a device that returns you to the main screen is called "home". Home is a destination, and a location, and an idea; it is a nowhere and a very special somewhere. It is made by us, and it makes us. Home is the place we go back to, in dreams and in folktales, at the end of a regular working day, at the end of long and winding roads and around the corner from the shops; it is the ultimate modern purchase and security, and the soundest bearing known since human history began. Home is the safest spot, and the most dangerous. It is where we keep our treasures, our memories, our identities themselves, and our secrets, our shame and the fragments shored against our ruin.”
― Kate Holden, The Ruin of Magic: Longing and Belonging in Strange Times