Rebecca

“It was merely a lot of obscure talk about nothing in particular, which possessed not the merit of any meaning and which lost most of its reasonableness in the rhyme. Rotten stuff, poetry.”
― H. C. Asterley

“What kind of hoarder was she?' he asks.
'Books and cats, mainly,' I tell the man who loves his cats and who I know is now actively considering his extensive book collection.
'What's the difference between a private library and a book hoarder?' he wonders.
We are both silent before chuckling and answering in unison: 'Faeces.'
But the difference is this phone call. And the others like it I could make. And how strong we are when we are loved.”
― Sarah Krasnostein, The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman's Extraordinary Life in the Business of Death, Decay, and Disaster

“Thought doesn't necessarily calm a person, nor does confinement calm thought.”
― Fiona Kelly McGregor, Iris

“No one can hate themselves into a version of themselves that they like”
― Richard Pink, Dirty Laundry: Why Adults with ADHD Are So Ashamed and What We Can Do to Help