Colette Webber > Recent Status Updates

(This book’s kinda too long lol. Heres a phrase I saw and liked)

‘She was a wisp of silk in a forest of black wool’

‘I often thought there was too much time there. That the place was sick with it.’

‘He thought that collecting certain combinations of stones and shells made him invisible and would often stagger into the Bell and Anchor… his pockets chinking with shingle, and try to drink from other people’s glasses, thinking that they couldn’t see him’

‘I was afraid of burglars and snakes and fires and Jack the Ripper when I should have been afraid of thirty years in a bank and a takeover bid and a premature retirement and the Deuil du Roy Albert’

‘I would myself have preferred to visit the Louvre and see the Venus of Melos and the Winged Victory, but my aunt would have none of it. “It’s morbid. I once knew a girl who was chopped up that way between the Gare du Nord and Calais Maritime.”’

Vibe with this woman hard. Between this and The Hearing Trumpet, it’s Tough Old Broad Summer 💗

“I thought you said animals were not allowed in institutions. Forty police dogs are surely animals?”
“Police dogs are not properly speaking animals. Police dogs are perverted animals with no animal mentality. Policemen are not human being so how can police dogs be animals?”

Leonora rly said ACAB

Also we need to bring back ‘versatile’ to mean ‘bisexual’

‘Dougal gazed at him like a succubus whose mouth is in its eyes’

Loving this weird lil book so far

‘… that I should be so abruptly, so hideously entangled with a boy; what was strange was that this was but one tiny aspect of the dreadful human tangle, occurring everywhere, without end, forever.’

Go off, Mr Baldwin

‘He belonged to this strange city, which did not belong to me’