Alice

“However, I’ve come to understand that under some circumstances a mourning period is liberating. You don’t have to act in normal ways while your heart is grieving. You can wear black and later grey or mauve and people will understand that you are in a liminal place, and can’t be fully counted on. There’s freedom in mourning time too.”
― Victoria Finlay, Fabric: The Hidden History of the Material World

“I will be haunted – I am still haunted –”
― Victoria Finlay, Fabric: The Hidden History of the Material World

“They thought it was pure, but it wasn’t. Not really.”
― Victoria Finlay, Fabric: The Hidden History of the Material World

“And whatever the name, it felt like something heavy at the end of a book that otherwise felt full of lightness.”
― Victoria Finlay, Fabric: The Hidden History of the Material World