MJ

“Suddenly I am a child again and nobody wants to go near me, nobody can cope with how badly I want to be held, or touched, or listened to, and there is nothing I can ever do about it.”
― Sophie Mackintosh, The Water Cure

“...I was jealous, not because of him, but because of what it felt like to be seen. To be known.”
― Sophie Mackintosh, The Water Cure

“My body, up until now, has been just a thing that bled. A thing with vast reserves of pain. A strange instrument that I don't always understand. But something kicks in, triggered by the looking.”
― Sophie Mackintosh, The Water Cure

“Stupid to meet a stranger but I was still convinced by the intrinstic goodness of people, I was so innocent, and I had not been exposed to the world very much. I didn't understand how rapidy things had changed, how all that had been needed was permission for everything to go to shit, and that persmission had been granted. I didnt know that there was no longer any need for the men to hold their bodies in check or to carry on the lie that we mattered.”
― Sophie Mackintosh, The Water Cure