Alice

“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

“Later I will cry and cry in great hollow howls. Later I will understand what it is to keen, to feel a crazed, dark sound emerging from the deep, hard, rock fields inside my body.”
― Victoria Finlay, Fabric: The Hidden History of the Material World

“I was empty, exposed, I was so light I was adrift, I was lint in the air.”
― Victoria Finlay, Fabric: The Hidden History of the Material World

“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