Kate Hamer > Quotes

“No one tells you how it will be when you have a child. No one tells you it’s going to be worry, worry, worry, worry, worry. World without end. How they hold your fate, your survival in their hands, whereas before you were free, free and didn’t know it. How if anything happens to them you will also be destroyed and you carry that knowledge with you, constantly.”
― Kate Hamer, The Girl in the Red Coat

“Children are like the zombies I once saw in a film at Dad's. We have to do as we're told and obey like our brains have got eaten.”
― Kate Hamer, The Girl in the Red Coat

“so. So sometimes the very worst thought becomes a train that doesn’t stop.”
― Kate Hamer, The Girl in the Red Coat

“We are what our families have made us. But sometimes you can escape that. You can close a door on it and walk into another room. This room is furnished differently. It's all things you chose yourself. My room is furnished with Elizabeth and Tom. The light illuminates them through the window. They glow as brightly as the setting sun.”
― Kate Hamer, The Doll Funeral

“They reminded me of birds gathering around and lifting up the broken one of their flock onto their shoulders, bearing it along.”
― Kate Hamer, The Girl in the Red Coat

“We are what our families have made us. But sometimes you can escape that. You can close a door on it and walk into another room. This room is furnished differently. It’s all things you chose yourself. My room is furnished with Elizabeth and Tom. The light illuminates them through the window. They glow as brightly as the setting sun.”
― Kate Hamer, The Doll Funeral

“The Forest of Dean. Here we lived in one of a row of small stone cottages with trees stretching over us like children doing ghost impressions with their hands, surrounded by closed coal mines slowly getting zipped back up into the earth.”
― Kate Hamer, The Doll Funeral

“platitudes”
― Kate Hamer, The Girl in the Red Coat

“Memories grew out of the darkness; their quick growing webs crossing my path so I walked into them unawares and felt their skeins across my face.”
― Kate Hamer, The Girl in the Red Coat