Ruby Todd > Quotes

“Clarence was right about rituals. If you don’t formally mark the end of something, when is it over? And how else do you begin again?”
― Ruby Todd, Bright Objects

“But I was a sniper without a gun, playing war games with myself.”
― Ruby Todd, Bright Objects

“a feeling reared into view like the shadow of an object too large to see, the feeling of my own essential solitude as a geological fact, monolithic and unshifting.”
― Ruby Todd, Bright Objects

“But it’s only when you jump,” I said, “that you know for sure whether you really want to fall, and by then there’s no returning; and there are those seconds before things go dark when you’re very much alive, when you’re simply falling and waiting for velocity and surface tension to break you.” He said nothing, so I went on. “And then, you’ll never know whether things might have become better. You’ll never know who else you might have loved.”
― Ruby Todd, Bright Objects