Clare Atkins > Quotes

“It's a fucking jail! A jail for people who've done nothing wrong except come here by boat. It's not even fucking illegal - did you know that?”
― Clare Atkins, Between Us

“In Farsi we ask: Haal-e shomaa chetoreh? It is the same: how are you? But when I answer, when I am little, my father never let me say good or okay. Because he says he is asking about the feeling, you know... like, how is your heart?"
"My heart is happy," I say, "Happy you called.”
― Clare Atkins, Between Us

“I feel like my lies are compounding lately, building up like plaque on teeth. I can almost taste them and they taste bitter.”
― Clare Atkins, Nona & Me

“And there's a good chance the only one day I'll get is here and now.”
― Clare Atkins, Between Us

“Her concern hangs between us, so real and present it is almost visible.”
― Clare Atkins, Nona & Me

“A thin stream of music
stretched between us,
joining her world to mine.”
― Clare Atkins, Between Us

“something that”
― Clare Atkins, Nona & Me

“Maybe you'll understand when you're older. Maybe you won't. Love can arrive unexpectedly. You don't get a say in when or what or who. All you can do is grab it when it appears. And you do have to grab it. There's so much darkness in the world...”
― Clare Atkins, Between Us

“Something flickers between us, as delicate as a flame cupped in hands, protected from the breeze.”
― Clare Atkins, Between Us

“He's good at painting the world with his words. I don't understand all of them but I drink in enough to taste the flavours and swill them around in my mouth.”
― Clare Atkins, Between Us