Hannah

“Time gives you a bit of distance where you can look back on whatever's happened to you and not feel all the feelings you once had; those feeling have calmed down and they're not at the forefront of your mind in the way they are at the beginning.”
― Emma Stonex, The Lamplighters

“The man I want to be with wants you most when you do not want him, he prefers the chase. The point at which you become emotionally invested is the exact moment he loses interest. This is met with my own wounding where I want what doesn’t want me. He wants the consistency from a mother and not the conditionality of a lover. When I pointlessly argue and fight with him, I feel like I am fighting the very structures of the old colonial forces, where he has, holds and takes, and I give, offer and ask for nothing in return. We all have teeth in our stomach for him. We are all sacrificed at the altar of his fear.”
― Sheena Patel, I'm a Fan

“Every time I ate a dessert-themed yogurt, I felt like a stupid little bitch.”
― Monica Heisey, Really Good, Actually

“Did you know that 'eau de Nil' means 'water of the Nile'? I always thought i meant 'water of nothing', which is how the sea makes me feel, in a way, so I still think of it like that. Water of nothing.”
― Emma Stonex, The Lamplighters