Jacqueline Maley > Quotes

“It is a relief to service the needs of something outside yourself; I am convinced this is why most people become parents.”
― Jacqueline Maley, Lonely Mouth

“Laughter was a line back to the world.”
― Jacqueline Maley, Lonely Mouth

“Then she makes herself as free as birds are, which is to say, she makes herself as free as a man.”
― Jacqueline Maley, Lonely Mouth

“It was part of what I called Privacy of the Mind. That was my way of describing the realisation you have when you’re a child, that your mind belongs to you and you alone; that you can be sitting next to someone, thinking the most wicked, seditious thoughts, and they will never know.”
― Jacqueline Maley, Lonely Mouth

“Lonely mouth,’ he repeated. ‘It’s a Japanese expression. It means, like, you feel like you want to eat something, but you don’t know what it is. You’re looking for just the right thing. But maybe there is no right thing. Maybe you don’t need anything at all. But you can’t tell.’ ‘Sort of like a roving dissatisfaction?’ Odette said. ‘Yeah,’ said Reggie. ‘It means you want to put something in your mouth, but you’re not exactly hungry. Or maybe a constant hunger that will never be sated.”
― Jacqueline Maley, Lonely Mouth