

“The only way I could go on living was to believe I was not living.”
― The Sweet Hereafter
― The Sweet Hereafter

“It was snowing. It was always snowing at Christmas. December, in my memory, is white as Lapland, though there were no reindeers. But there were cats.”
― A Child's Christmas in Wales
― A Child's Christmas in Wales

“What we understand is that society must allow room for the irrational, in healthy balance with the rational.”
― The Bacchae
― The Bacchae

“Photographs of them alive and smiling would have made me cry and fall down and beat the earth with my fists; their actual dead faces only sealed me off from myself.”
― The Sweet Hereafter
― The Sweet Hereafter

“Did you know that ninety percent of your average household dust is composed of human epidermal matter? That's skin, to you."
Perhaps this explains your sense of Amanda's omnipresence. She has left her skin behind.”
― Bright Lights, Big City
Perhaps this explains your sense of Amanda's omnipresence. She has left her skin behind.”
― Bright Lights, Big City
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