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“I am here. Solid, steadily moving through the world. I can be alone. I can be a force. I don't need half-love, half-life, half is not enough. I can be whole with nothing. I came from nothing. I came from nowhere. I can be anywhere now, without. Here I am without. But here I am. Flying”
― Emma Glass, Rest and Be Thankful

“Grief will be worn like a cloak, will drag along behind me, heavy.”
― Emma Glass, Rest and Be Thankful

“I’m a mess, my life is a mess, he knows already because we share this space where we are always on hold and are always on call. We are cotton buds sucking up the sadness of others, we are saturated, we are saviours.”
― Emma glass, Rest and Be Thankful

“We are cotton buds sucking up the sadness of others, we are saturated, we are saviours. We absorb pain, too thick with mess to notice that everything around us is drying up and growing over. We will wake up one day in a wasteland, surrounded by the crumbling bones of those who loved us and waited for us to love them back. We did not forget but we were too busy being useful.”
― Emma Glass, Rest and Be Thankful

“Am I an egg now ?”
― Emma Glass, Rest and Be Thankful

“We are cotton buds sucking up the sadness of others, we are saturated, we are saviours. We absorb pain, too thick with mess to notice that everything around us is drying up and growing over. We will wake up one day in a wasteland, surrounded by the crumbling bones of those who loved us and waited for us to love them back. We did not forget but we were too busy being useful. We will crumble next to them but it will take forever, we will sit amongst the piles of dust alone.”
― Emma Glass, Rest and Be Thankful

“I look in the mirror and say to myself I look thin like this and then let go of my gut and watch the wobble and say maybe this is why you don't love me any more? I will never know because I will not ask you.”
― Emma Glass, Rest and Be Thankful

“The split is raw, like my skin has been unzipped and my chest is open, my heart climbs up and clambers out on aortic arms, dragging ventricles and veins, squeezed dry, old, blue and used. My lonely lungs will continue to breathe. Blood will make its own way to where it needs to be. I will live without the thumping beat, the throbbing beast, it belongs to you now, for a while at least. Please send it back, half full, with no hard feelings.”
― Emma Glass, Rest and Be Thankful

“She was born, she came out of her mother singing. Everything heart-shaped. This is all she ever wanted. And now she’s here, no more longing. She can’t bounce. Her heart is too big and will get in the way. She will learn to float. I wish she could keep her eagerness. I will her to keep it.”
― Emma Glass, Rest and Be Thankful

“I try to love London but London doesn't love me, doesn't love itself.”
― Emma Glass, Rest and Be Thankful

“We will wake up one day in a wasteland, surrounded by the crumbling bones of those who loved us and waited for us to love them back. We did not forget but we were too busy being useful. We will crumble next to them but it will take forever, we will sit amongst the piles of dust alone.”
― Emma Glass, Rest and Be Thankful

“I don't need half-love, half-life, half is not enough. I can be whole with nothing. I came from nothing. I came from nowhere.”
― Emma Glass, Rest and Be Thankful

“We all have the same eyes, the same chapped lips and wet brows. We are all different shades of blue.”
― Emma Glass, Rest and Be Thankful

“We are tethered. We share the same headache. We share the same wake. We stand in stillness. We stand in agony.”
― Emma Glass, Rest and Be Thankful

“I hear the crack as she hits the concrete, the street splits, my head splits, pain rakes open my brain. We are both scattered, splattered on the ground.”
― Emma Glass, Rest and Be Thankful

“I am partly impressed and partly terrified at my ability to function, to pull myself together, to remain present and to present myself.”
― Emma Glass, Rest and Be Thankful

“Nothing to say other than this is all really shit.”
― Emma Glass, Rest and Be Thankful

“Tiredness falls off like shriveled snakeskin, it will hang over the doorway and wait for me until the end of the day. Hang and wait to engulf my withered body, wrap me up and crush.”
― Emma Glass, Rest and Be Thankful

“I will miss the lick you give your lips before you speak but I won't miss the words that follow and fall out of that wry wet mouth.”
― Emma Glass, Rest and Be Thankful

“This run should be easier with nothing inside me. I should be light as air. I should be fucking floating.”
― Emma Glass, Rest and Be Thankful

“I can be alone. I can be a force. I don’t need half-love, half-life, half is not enough. I can be whole with nothing. I came from nothing. I came from nowhere. I can be anywhere now, without. Here I am without. But here I am. Flying.”
― Emma Glass, Rest and Be Thankful

“Toxicity drips out of him and I'll pour more into him.”
― Emma Glass, Rest and Be Thankful

“I silently, secretly say prayers over him. I am saying goodbye. Just in case. Sadness, coldness, darkness settles in my heart and dries it up like a stone.”
― Emma Glass, Rest and Be Thankful

“What happens if you die in a dream ?”
― Emma Glass, Rest and Be Thankful