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“Is this a haunting? I asked her and she looked at me as if surprised. No, she said, turning the radio down, not technically. More like a manifestation. I accused her of quibbling over semantics and she accused me of being incapable of nuance.”
― Julia Armfield, Salt Slow

“The sensation was not unlike the slip of missing a step, or the realisation that someone you are having an emotional moment with is much drunker than you'd thought they were.”
― Julia Armfield, Salt Slow

“When they had first fallen in love, she had kissed him with an intensity which imagined him already halfway out of the door. A grasping period - nights spent holding him overlong and too tightly, the ravenous dig of fingers into skin.”
― Julia Armfield, Salt Slow

“We didn't speak for three days, during which time I became so panicked at the thought of losing her that I sent her a total of thirty-nine hysterically casual messages - a photograph of my breakfast, a quote from a movie, a long text about which of my trains had been delayed that day.”
― Julia Armfield, Salt Slow