Kristy

“What comes next will be trickier, of course. Snowfall and a drop in temperature, a world tilting, the suddenness of something new. Best to keep on, wherever this is possible. Best, in time, to swim back from a drowning place and continue, struggle back into dailiness, and to live with the icing-over of windows, the frozen pipes and bad wiring and increasing impossibility. Better, in whatever small way, to go on until it becomes too cold to do so. Better to hold one’s hands to whatever warmth there is, to kiss and talk and grieve and fuck and hold tight against the whitening of the sky.”
― Julia Armfield, Private Rites

“ Sometimes I think hope is a far less satisfying feeling than despair.”
― Julia Armfield, Private Rites

“Remember this: the world as it once was. The way things appear in the instant before they go under: first assured, then shipwrecked. The ease with which facts presumed permanent can change.”
― Julia Armfield, Private Rites

“ I basically think the one job you have as a parent is to give your kid a childhood they don’t have to recover from.”
― Julia Armfield, Private Rites