Caroline

“People love a ritual when things get hairy, to feel they're doing something that thousands of people have done before them.”
― Julia Armfield, Private Rites

“This is a reasonable point. And when you're in full-on rage-ejection mode, there is nothing more infuriating than a reasonable point.”
― Allie Brosh, Solutions and Other Problems

“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

“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