Non Pratt > Quotes

“It's too much to be forgiven when all you want is to be blamed.”
― Non Pratt, Trouble

“Of the seminal moments in my life, Careers Day in the autumn of Year 5 is my favorite. Everyone had to dress as whatever they wanted to be once they grew up. I had gone in a tweed jacket and a bow tie, and when Miss Weston asked me what I wanted to be, I told her that I wanted to be the Doctor.

'Shouldn't you be wearing a lab coat and stethoscope like Paul?' She pointed to Paul Black, who was trying to strangle everyone with the stethoscope in question.

Before I could answer, a boy I didn't know from the other class spoke up.

'Paul's *a* doctor,' he explained, giving me a look of approval. 'He wants to be *the* Doctor.'

'Who?'

'Exactly,' we said at the same time, relieved that she understood.

She didn't. We were sent to the quiet table to reflect on why cheeking teachers was wrong.”
― Non Pratt, Trouble

“You can't lose someone who was never there in the first place.”
― Non Pratt, Trouble

“I know why we all fell apart, that's just what happens. But things that fall apart can be put back together, right? Even if there's a piece missing.”
― Non Pratt, Unboxed

“For my mum, to whom I'd turn in a heartbeat.”
― Non Pratt, Trouble

“Dear Mr and Mrs Lam,
There are no words.
Thinking of you - always thinking of Chris. I think you should know this.
Ty”
― Non Pratt, Trouble

“There are some things it is best not to repeat. I think I heard most of them in that antenatal class.”
― Non Pratt, Trouble

“But the thing about knowing you're about to die is that you spend a lot of time thinking about being alive. Way more than you do if you're actually going to live - living takes up so much brain space that it squished out the other stuff. The important things. Like when you feel like the best version of yourself. Who was there when you did. Whether you've been chasing that version of yourself ever since and never found her.”
― Non Pratt, Unboxed

“I never really believed it would come to this. Death was someething that happened in other people's stories. Not mine. Not Millie's.”
― Non Pratt, Unboxed

“He's beautiful. Not specifically to look at, but to be with.”
― Non Pratt, Remix

“Friendship isn't something that's supposed to be perfect because people aren't perfect. People will lie, they will cheat and they will let you down. Friendship is what picks you up.

You can't pick someone up if they never fall down.”
― Non Pratt, Remix

“Grief isn't always a knife-sharp twist in your heart or a dull bludgeon in your stomach, sometimes it's a net, cast suddenly and silently over your soul so that you feel trapped and suffocated by its grasp. I feel the loss in the deepest recesses of myself, hidden parts of my mind and my matter, united in missing someone I will never see again.”
― Non Pratt