Samantha Dupree

“I want to explain her in a way that would make you love her, but the problem with this is that loving is something we all do alone and through different sets of eyes.”
― Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea

“It's not love, to give your wounds to someone else.”
― Rory Power, Wilder Girls

“...in truth, there is no state that better demonstrates real firmness of affection than the ability to remain quietly comfortable together without conversation.”
― Janice Hadlow, The Other Bennet Sister

“I used to think there was such a thing as emptiness, that there were places in the world one could go and be alone. This, I think, is still true, but the error in my reasoning was to assume that alone was somewhere you could go, rather than somewhere you had to be left.”
― Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea