Niamh

“It is easier, I guess, to believe that life is inexhaustible. Not so much that its opportunities are vast or that one’s personal dreams can be reached at any age or season, but rather to believe that every dull or daily thing you do will happen again any number of times over. To stamp a limit on even the most tedious of things—the number of
times you have left to buy a coffee, the number of times you will defrost the fridge—is to acknowledge reality in a way that amounts to torture. In truth, we will only perform any action a certain number of times, and to know that can never be helpful. There is, in my opinion, no use in demanding to know the number, in demanding to know upon waking the number of boxes to be ticked off every single day. After all, why would it help to be shown the mathematics of things, when instead we could simply imagine that whatever time we have is limitless.”
― Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea

“Every couple, I think, enjoys its own mythology, recollections like note cards to guide you around an exhibition…”
― Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea

“I prefer to think of it as redistribution of matter.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“Far too many times I had asked myself whether art was imitating life or if it was the other way around.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains