Anne-Marie

“I don't know why I felt so closed and bitter and threatened by the things I did not like.”
― Peter Cameron, Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You

“I hadn't been able to trust since the age of four. I was torn between wanting to be cradled and telling the world to go fuck itself, and those were opposite sides of the same coin.”
― Betsy Lerner, Food and Loathing: A Life Measured Out in Calories

“And the boys were all clean, their faces freshly and brutally shaved, their hair painstakingly gelled into exquisite apparent carelessness, with this electric feeling inside of them, which matched the feelings in the girls, that they were all ascending, moving into a future that could only improve them, and I wondered what it was like - the miracle, the stupidity of feeling that.”
― Peter Cameron, Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You

“For Stephen, London was less a city that never slept, more a city that got a good nine hours.”
― David Nicholls, The Understudy