“She had promised to stop denying the truth, to strive always to confront things as they were no matter how much it hurt, but she felt that this was one area an exception could be made. To stand in these rooms and believe however briefly that death was a thing which happened only in a foreign country, and could not follow you home.”
― Ordinary Human Failings
― Ordinary Human Failings
“My mother is very like William Blake, she has visions and dreams and she cannot always distinguish a flea's head from a king. Luckily she can't paint.”
― Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
― Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
“If they made a film of my inner life, it would be more than the public could take. Mothers would scream, "Bring back The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, so we can have some decent family entertainment!”
― Some Hope
― Some Hope
“His Raskolnikov eyes, like dead coals, were altogether of too fine cast – speaking too much blighted and heroic romanticism – for a poor shivering wretch such as himself.”
― Shadow Dance
― Shadow Dance
“When shall I be dead and rid
Of all the wrong my father did?
How long, how long 'till spade and hearse
Put to sleep my mother's curse?”
― The Once and Future King
Of all the wrong my father did?
How long, how long 'till spade and hearse
Put to sleep my mother's curse?”
― The Once and Future King
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