Kristy

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

“Hard to count the hands pressed to glass, the bodies on the platform that rings the house and sits gently on the surface of the water. Ghost-forms becoming solid as she looks at them, dark figures, people staring in from without. The key in the lock is unexpected, the sound of the door thrown back, the footsteps, the figures in the hall. Agnes looks from Isla to Irene, finds herself unable to speak, unequal to the moment.
This is the wrong genre, she thinks, and a figure in the doorway is smiling at her and there will never now be time for resolution, to finish the conversation they were trying to have.”
― Julia Armfield, Private Rites

“Any horror story could be said to work in two pieces: the fear of being wholly alone and of realising that one has company.”
― 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