Natascha

“What’s the point of being alive if you don’t try to kill yourself now and again.”
― Douglas Stuart, John of John

“Maybe I’ve had more practice with lying to my father. We’re grown men, Innes, and if we want to be friends, if we want to have a couple of pints and look at sheep vans, then we should be able to do what we like. Besides, you invited him, and he said no. You asked for his help and he refused you.” “Yes.” He straightened up. “Yes, he refused me. Of course. You’re right.” “Then tell your face.” Innes rubbed his face and for a moment it almost worked.”
― Douglas Stuart, John of John

“At twenty-two, I still believed adults did things because they made sense, that they had information I did not have, by virtue of being adults. I was beginning to think this might not always be the case. I would soon come to understand that adulthood was exactly this: the constant upending of everything you believed when you were young.”
― Daisy Alpert Florin, My Last Innocent Year

“Men admire each other when they are at their best, but women enjoy meeting each other in pits of despair.”
― Daisy Alpert Florin, My Last Innocent Year