Gemma Bond

“But right on the heels of that feeling, that suspicion that all is not yet lost, comes the urge to tell my mother, tell her that I am okay today, that I have felt something close to happiness, that I might still be capable of feeling happy. She will want to know that. But I can’t tell her. That’s the wall I always slam into on a good morning like this. My mother will be worrying about me, and I can’t tell her that I’m okay.”
― Lily King, Writers & Lovers

“I won't let anyone down,
If I crawl tonight
But I still let everyone down,
When I change in size
And I went tumbling down,
Trying to reach your height
But I scream too loud,
If I speak my mind.”
― Halsey, I Would Leave Me If I Could: A Collection of Poetry

“It's always a choice between fireworks and coffee in bed,' Fabiana says. 'It always is.”
― Lily King, Writers & Lovers

“It surprised Anna and it upset Anna how small her life was each time she tried to tell it, to shape it in order to escape it, how it always came out too quickly as a few dispiriting sentences so easily dismissed.”
― Richard Flanagan, The Living Sea of Waking Dreams