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“the time I spent in hospital is the hinge on which my childhood swung.”
― I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death
― I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death
“In any fairy-tale, getting what you wish for comes at a cost. There is always a codicil, an addendum to the granting of a wish. There is always a price to pay. How was I to know, as I held her that night, as I stared at the ultrasound screen, as I burst out of the clinic, fumbling with my phone, trying to press the right buttons so I could call my husband, the boy from the courtyard, and say, you’ll never guess what I’ve just seen? How I’ve longed that it could have been me, the wisher, who had to pay the magic’s price, to bear the brunt.”
― I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death
― I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death
“Holding my child, I realised my vulnerability to death: I was frightened of it, for the first time. I knew all too well how fine a membrane separates us from that place, and how easily it can be perforated. —”
― I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death
― I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death
“we were both trying to see the people we had been, those ghost selves who no longer existed, those able-bodied bipeds who never thought twice about the miracle of independent movement, who had been swallowed inside the sessile, atrophied beings we now were. I”
― I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death
― I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death
“There are times when everything takes on shades of mythology: you hold up her adrenalin injectors to the light, pondering that clearish yellow liquid, and realise that you have been given an elixir to bring your child back from death. You must stab her to save her. You can haul her back from the dark, but only if you have the right collection of items, only if you make an appeal to the right person. There are times when you chide yourself for being too fanciful. And then, when you are reading the story of Persephone to your daughter, you can’t quite believe how pertinent it is, and you wonder what people knew of this then. You and your daughter turn to face each other wordlessly, absorbing the tale of the girl who ate six fateful seeds, condemning herself to the underworld, and the mother who fought to bring her back. You”
― I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death
― I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death
Sarah’s 2025 Year in Books
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