Caroline

“everything related to the organisation of a funeral seems precision-tooled to make a person feel studded with tiny little pieces of glass.”
― Julia Armfield, Private Rites

“And that feels . . . really bad. I could go on and on about how bad it feels. When you can explain things to people who are willing to listen to you explain them, it is extremely difficult to resist fully and brutally explaining them. It feels good to explain them — like maybe you're getting somewhere. Like maybe, if you can just...really explain them, the experiences will realize you're catching on and stop bothering you.”
― Allie Brosh, Solutions and Other Problems

“If you can't win, start playing a different game and score just as many points.”
― Allie Brosh, Solutions and Other Problems

“Some time ago, she accidentally winked at a woman while messing around with her contact lenses and the horror of that moment stayed with her well into the end of the day. Embarrassment, the potential for it, like something caught on the sole of the foot and hard to slough off again, a physical object she carries around at all times.”
― Julia Armfield, Private Rites