Eliah

“He is breathless for the life he's entering into and I hope that he will not know pain or betrayal or disappointment, but of course he will, because he's alive and that's the price we pay”
― John Boyne, Water

“When the brain tumour was diagnosed, I thought, The unvierse isn't done with us yet. So this is what life is really like: a series of terrible events? I can't believe I was so in the dark for so long. The body is capable of betrayal at any given moment. But then I would ask myself: Did someone promise me that it was going to be all good? And the answer would be, No, no one did. So, then, where did I get this silly notion from that life was supposed to be all good and well?”
― Katy Wix, Delicacy

“We laughed and it was the laugh of certainty that only the young can really afford. The laugh of people at the idea that they would ever let themselves get that old, or pot-bellied, sunburnt, or bald or bitter, or unhappy, or chaotic or disappointed.”
― Kate Wix

“I think the house of death has but one door, but it's the windows I don't like”
― Katy Wix, Delicacy