Hannah McDonnell

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

“A heart is a mystery and not a mystery. It hides under ribs, pumping blood. You can pull it out, hold it in your hand. Squeeze. It wants what it wants. It can be made of gold, glass, stone. It can stop anytime.”
― Helena Fox

“We were not able to resolve that difference and what I didn't know was how something as straightforward as a difference could lead to something as complicated as a breakdown”
― Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

“There are times when it will go so wrong that you will barely be alive, and times when you realise that being barely alive, on your own terms, is better than living a bloated half-life on someone else's terms.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?