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“You were done being hopeless.”
― Sorrow and Bliss
― Sorrow and Bliss
“What was the point? It was bloody long.” “Oliver, shut up. I don’t know.” She flicked her hair. “Just that feeling of like, thank God when you see that person. Martha, do you know what I’m talking about?” I said yes. Thank God is how I felt when I saw Patrick that day. Not a thrill or affection or pleasure. Visceral relief.”
― Sorrow and Bliss
― Sorrow and Bliss
“At night I read until I feel asleep and wherever I was, every time somebody in a book wanted something, I wrote down what it was. Once I had finished them all, I had so many torn-off bits of paper, collected in a jar on Ingrid's dressed. But they all said, a person, a family, a home, money, to not be alone. That is all anybody wants.”
― Sorrow and Bliss
― Sorrow and Bliss
“Everything is broken and messed up and completely fine. That is what life is. It's only the ratios that change. usually on their own.”
― Sorrow and Bliss
― Sorrow and Bliss
“I was wearing the only outfit I would own once I left – jeans and a Primark sweatshirt that Ingrid bought two of because they were £9 and had the word University printed on the front, which, she said, made it clear to people that we’d been educated at tertiary level but weren’t so desperate for approval we needed them to know where.”
― Sorrow and Bliss
― Sorrow and Bliss
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