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“People think it’s just hellfire and brimstone, four horsemen and out, but actually the end times go on and on and on.”
― Julia Armfield, Private Rites

“The problem with love, of course, is that it frequently asks too much of unlovable people. It can be hard, on even the best of days, to compel oneself to be selfless and patient and undemanding or even halfway reasonable when one is not given to any of those behaviours. But these are nonetheless the qualities that love demands.”
― Julia Armfield, Private Rites

“Any horror story could be said to work in two pieces: the fear of being wholly alone and of realising that one has company.”
― Julia Armfield, Private Rites

“It is difficult, these days, to know how to be. Not a new phenomenon, of course, but one lent a certain urgency by the situation. People protest, or forget to protest. People hoard food, medical supplies, use them up and hoard them again…they suspect that there is less time than predicted, throw parties to celebrate the endless ending, pretend the coming on of something new. It’s always been this way, always worsening. A contradiction: the fact of something always being the case and yet that case being flux, deterioration.”
― Julia Armfield