Helen

“Death runs like radioactive iodine through your sense of reality, allowing this reality to be looked at in high contrast, its structures glowing. It has a way of making things very true, but also, somehow, less real.”
― Laurence Scott, Picnic Comma Lightning: In Search of a New Reality

“When someone close to you is dying, you can begin to feel wary of their everyday belongings. You've heard horror stories about sorting through 'their things' in the weeks afterwards. You look with mounting unease at your mother's dressing gown, her slippers, her purse hanging, uncharacteristically unemployed, on the bathroom hook...”
― Laurence Scott, Picnic Comma Lightning: In Search of a New Reality

“Anyone who isn't embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn't learning enough.”
― Alain de Botton

“The pills sit in there in their colours and shapes ready to push me, in plastic-coated increments, into my future.”
― Anna Funder, All That I Am