Rebecca Whitney > Quotes

“In every room the recollection of my childhood is slight, and fireflies of memory disappear as soon as I turn my mind to them. I passed through my past, I didn't or couldn't savour the time, and now my history is huge and vacant, like a film I never finished watching.”
― Rebecca Whitney, The Liar's Chair

“The little girl I used to be has become just another character I played, but somehow I've forgotten the lines of the script.”
― Rebecca Whitney, The Liar's Chair

“The voices of the men outside recede, after which there’s another kind of quiet into which my thoughts drop, back into the hole of my past. I pick at the muck in there but it doesn’t go away. With the layers peeled back, I’m surprised at the density of the anger, but there’s no specific focus, nothing concrete to kick at, only a need to go back as far as I can to the beginning and extract the rotten tooth. Cauterize the infection. The persistent taps of memory, brushed off by years of distractions – men, work, marriage, booze – have latched on. The truth is crouched and ready . . .”
― Rebecca Whitney, The Liar's Chair

“Sussex”
― Rebecca Whitney, The Liar's Chair