Caroline Smailes > Quotes

“Mum was thinking ’bout going back to study creative twatting writing. She had a novel in her, whatever the fuck that meant. She was going to do all the stuff that having me when she was twenty had stopped her from doing. She said I’d made her tits little and taken away her identity.”
― Caroline Smailes, The Drowning of Arthur Braxton

“My English teacher says I’ve the brains and I’m used to being around kids, what with being the oldest of seven kids by four different waste-of-space dads, ’cause even though Mum’s proper useless at picking nice blokes, she’s proper perfect at getting pregnant.”
― Caroline Smailes, The Drowning of Arthur Braxton

“I reckon that you can fall in and out of love all through your life, but there's only one person who really fits. And that love, that love trumps all other love. The problem is, that like everything in life, you can blink and you'll miss your moment.”
― Caroline Smailes, The Drowning of Arthur Braxton