“(When you hit your seventies the whole world is basically one big crèche and everyone in it an abandoned toddler.) It wasn’t the clothes”
― The Life Impossible
― The Life Impossible
“worry is incredibly common. Even more common than we imagine. That is one of the first things telepathy had taught me. Along with loneliness it is the polluted air that most minds live in, the thing that deprives us of the present moment, trapping us in the past and future all at once. But”
― The Life Impossible
― The Life Impossible
“To swim in the ocean, we sometimes have to make a splash.”
― The Life Impossible
― The Life Impossible
“Women vanish far too easily. Your work shouldn’t be hidden. Art’s not meant to be locked away, my dear.” Belva rattled the ice in her glass. “It’s meant to connect us, to make us cry and laugh, to make us feel less alone.”
― The Library of Lost Dollhouses
― The Library of Lost Dollhouses
“from Mary Shelley. From Frankenstein. My second-favourite book, after The Count of Monte Cristo. The line was this: ‘There is something at work in my soul, which I do not understand.”
― The Life Impossible
― The Life Impossible
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