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“The concert was three hours of heaven, all of them scream-singing the words to every song along with thousands of other girls, lifted together on a tide of riotous, unapologetic joy, the feeling that to be a girl with other girls was not some weakness, as they had been told, but a power, the best and luckiest power on earth.”
― Coco Mellors, Blue Sisters

“As long as you are alive, it is never too late to be found.”
― Coco Mellors, Blue Sisters

“Wen kümmert am Ende irgendein mieser Erstentwurf? Hauptsache, er hat uns Erkenntnisse für die späteren, besseren Versionen geliefert. Man kann beim Schreiben alles überarbeiten – außer weiße Seiten.”
― Benedict Wells, Die Geschichten in uns: Vom Schreiben und vom Leben

“A sister is not a friend. Who can explain the urge to take a relationship as primal and complex as a sibling and reduce it to something as replaceable, as banal as a friend? Yet this status is used again and again to connote the highest intimacy. True sisterhood is not the same as friendship. You don't choose each other and there is no furtive period of getting to know each other. You are a part of each other, right from the start. Look at an umbilical cord—tough, sinuous, unlovely, yet essential—and compare it to a friendship bracelet of brightly woven thread. That is the difference between a sister and a friend.”
― Coco Mellors, Blue Sisters