Patricia Finney > Quotes

“I hate it when everyone is so noble and good in a story that you can't imagine it being true at all.”
― Patricia Finney, Feud

“The truly awful thing about depression is that comfort is impossible because comfort is haughtily dismissed. I wouldn’t wish it on my worst enemy. And yet as you watch someone churning away at the bottom of their pit, never missing an opportunity to try and drag you down with them, you start to want to kick their arse. You want to scream “Do something, anything, but stop whining,” and cut off all food until they go out and earn it. But this you must never never do. Even thinking of it is bad. Somebody who is depressed isn’t selfish, or self-obsessed or lazy or arrogant or a drunk, they’re ill. They are.”
― Patricia Finney, Lucky Woman

“More problems solve themselves if only you can content yourself in patience and wait.”
― Patricia Finney, Unicorn's Blood

“It seems I am fated always to be wading through the shite, thought Becket a few hours later, coughing and trying not to breathe through his nose. Before him stretched a foul plain down to the Thames mudflats, lined with long dykes. The nearest steamed gently before him: a dunghill of magnificent, epic size. Stench of piss and shit many weeks old was making the air blue above them and the number of different mephitic and disease-laden odours hardly bore thinking about.”
― Patricia Finney, Elizabethan Noir Trilogy Boxed Set: Firedrake's Eye, Unicorn's Blood and Gloriana's Torch