Hannah McDonnell

“The years don't slow down any as they pass”
― Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These

“Is Hamlet mad or is he acting madness? How can anyone know the difference?”
― Suzanne Scanlon, Committed: On Meaning and Madwomen

“We bury things so deep we no longer remember there was anything to bury. Our bodies remember. Our neurotic states remember. But we don't”
― Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

“Let us again pretend that life is a solid substance, shaped like a globe, which we turn about in our fingers. Let us pretend that we can make out a plain and logical story, so that when one matter is despatched—love for instance—we go on, in an orderly manner, to the next. ”
― Virginia Woolf , The Waves