Lexie

“It’s not my brain that makes me break down. It’s the pretending. The hiding. The way the world isn’t built for us.”
― Elle McNicoll, A Kind of Spark

“One of the challenges with pain—physical or psychic—is that we can really only approach it through metaphor. It can’t be represented the way a table or a body can. In some ways pain is the opposite of language.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“No horrible, awful, rubbish day is worth damaging a library book.”
― Elle McNicoll, A Kind of Spark

“I spend every moment of my life, when I am outside our family home, second-guessing everything that I do. I study people's faces to make sure that they are accepting what I am saying, that they are never confused or offended. I make myself smaller. I shrink away, eyes downcast and hand outstretched. For a crumb of sympathy.”
― Elle McNicoll, A Kind of Spark