Lucy Easthope > Quotes

“You learn early on that you can't show fear or weakness. The cards are stacked against you already for not being police or forensics. And for being a woman. So, you perfect your swagger.”
― Lucy Easthope, When the Dust Settles: Stories of Love, Loss and Hope from an Expert in Disaster

“It is the text messages sent on the morning of 7 July 2005 that I think about most often. The conversations cut short in the middle of an argument or the middle of a new love affair or even just asking 'What's for tea?' Never meant to be seen by anyone other than the intended recipient. The end of a thread of anger or lust, hope or dejection. Love and life interrupted forever.”
― Lucy Easthope, When the Dust Settles: Stories of Love, Loss and Hope from an Expert in Disaster

“I'm always struck by how fine the line between catastrophe and the rest of the world can be.”
― Lucy Easthope, When the Dust Settles: Stories of Love, Loss and Hope from an Expert in Disaster

“...it was only afterwards that this period was framed neatly and bookended with a beginning and an end. At the time, you just kept putting one foot in front of the other, each time that dawn broke.”
― Lucy Easthope, When the Dust Settles: Stories of Love, Loss and Hope from an Expert in Disaster

“Flood damage to a home cleaves through the life before but, unlike fire, does not destroy completely. It cruelly damages and contaminates just enough that the item is still there but is fouled.”
― Lucy Easthope, When the Dust Settles: Stories of Love, Loss and Hope from an Expert in Disaster