Natalie Menn

“Here are the things that do fill me: a night sky,
endless and rammed with stars. The soaring
of a soundtrack over a triumphal point
in a film trailer, something inside me stirring
like an animal. Dark roads and cosy cars,
and imagining having somebody I loved
enough to distract me in the front seat.
Helplessness, sometimes. Anger, always.”
― Elisabeth Hewer, Wishing for Birds

“I mean I don’t want to die but I sure would appreciate the quiet.”
― Elisabeth Hewer, Wishing for Birds

“You can’t build a life
on another human being. We’re foundations
of sand. We’re Atlas buckling under the sky.”
― Elisabeth Hewer, Wishing for Birds

“You’re a defiant act
of creation.”
― Elisabeth Hewer, Wishing for Birds