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“They, mother and son, are a zipper, slowly separating as the years rush by.”
― Gillian McAllister, Wrong Place Wrong Time

“But isn’t humor a different kind of repression?”
― Gillian McAllister, Wrong Place Wrong Time

“I used to hope, I typed once, that I’d die before my partner, even though I knew that was selfish. I used to think that I hoped I’d die before she died and before the planet died and really just generally before things got any worse.”
― Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea

“No one puts their children in a boat, unless the water is safer than the land.”
― Warsan Shire, Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head: Poems