Kitty

“You think you aren't able to love, except that of course you are. You think you aren't able to love correctly or the same as everyone else, except that of course you are, you just haven't had a chance to do it yet. You're not special, you're just waiting.”
― Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea

“Mam called him harmless, which is one of the worst things you could say about a person.”
― Colin Walsh, Kala

“She did think she was special, but she wouldn’t have admitted it. She knew enough to know there was nothing less special than thinking you were.”
― Coco Mellors, Cleopatra and Frankenstein

“The answer: assimilation. Always, the pressure is there. Assimilate, assimilate. Dissolve yourself into the melting pot. And then flow out, pour into the mould. Bend your bones until they splinter and crack and you fit. Force yourself into their form. Assimilate, they say it, encouraging. Then frowning. Then again and again. And always there, quiet, beneath the urging language of tolerance and cohesion - disappear!”
― Natasha Brown, Assembly