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“Try and remember that if you can. Hold onto it through everything else that happens in life, through all the things that might make you want to forget - keep it safe somewhere.”
― The Shock of the Fall
― The Shock of the Fall
“Her brother has a disease, an illness with the shape and sound of a snake. It slithers through the branches of our family tree. It must have broken her heart, to know that I was next.”
― The Shock of the Fall
― The Shock of the Fall
“Thinking about the past is like digging up graves”
― The Shock of the Fall
― The Shock of the Fall
“But one thing I’ve learnt about people, is that they can always surprise you.”
― The Shock of the Fall
― The Shock of the Fall
“That was sort of our family portrait. It's not the kind of thing you think you would miss. Maybe you don't even notice it at all those thousands of times, sitting between your mum and dad on the big green couch with your brother on the carpet getting in the way of the telly. Maybe you don't even notice that.
But you notice it when he isn't there anymore. You notice so many places where he isn't, and you hear so many of the things he doesn't say.
I do.
I hear them all the time.”
― The Shock of the Fall
But you notice it when he isn't there anymore. You notice so many places where he isn't, and you hear so many of the things he doesn't say.
I do.
I hear them all the time.”
― The Shock of the Fall
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