Clare Snow > Recent Status Updates

"Is all nature so mutable, to be snuffed out and remade by a man's attention?"

"Dad needs to learn that his dreams for me are nowhere near big enough."

"There's a feeling of power with anonymity. I like it. In this moment, I'm no one's son or nephew with a past. I'm not even a friend or an enemy. I'm a facesless, emotionless provider of information that other people want. The perfect half truth."

I've known emus are as dumb as chickens, since that time I was walking the dingoes, and the emu ran towards us, not to scare us away but because Mr Emu was scared and meant to run away from us. (Don't worry, our dingoes were leashed.)

It's because emus are ratites and split off from the Neoaves clade: all modern birds except Palaeognathae (ratites) and Galloanserae (chickens, turkeys, other brainless birds)

"I don't want people to remember our sister for the way she died. I want them to remember that Beth lived."

"He wrote us as he saw us - like we were the best story he ever told."

"Her father had taught her that writing was her legacy, that she was the daughter of Wollstonecraft and Godwin, the child of philosophers."

"I don't know how to answer this without undoing myself."

"Better not to have any private moments, not when I was going to murder him."

"Murder happens casually and is forgotten."

"They were all clinging to the wreckage."

I didn't realise Scott & Zelda's last years were so desolate

"Shall I explain how babies are made?"

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'Why is there a flying car in my lab?'

So many questions...

'How do you trick something without a brain?'
'Easy. I do it all the time with my brother.'

"What? There are no more of you alive on Earth! How long have I been asleep?"

Oh Violet 🤣🤣

Poor little Tassie. He doesn't look like a devil 😼

"Can I unravel myself?
For I am unravelling.
My own name whispers
imperative
scratching at my throat
to be coughed out."

"How disappointment
was filling you up
and weighing you down
with cold clinking stones."

"Your grief is a hot malleable metal
that has to be forged
into something useful
or it will burn you up,
incinerate you."

"And there I am looking
and looking back.
Lost, fearful and defiantly alive,
bruised in darkness,
stung by light."

"I should have listened harder.
Perhaps I would have heard
the clinking stones
rolling in your belly."

The reviewers of The Great Gatsby "could only see Fitzgerald's shimmering reproduction of their world's surface, not the way he had also plunged past it, foretelling a nation that would be adulterated by success."

"who can come between a Wolf and her dream?"

"I swallowed down my naivety
in thinking the world
could be beautiful to me
without hurting someone else"

"I want the future to arrive
so fast that the past
doesn't matter"

"Never have I felt so sure
of where I belong
except in those few minutes
between being swallowed
and being saved"

"the strangest thing -
my denial of you
is so extreme
that all it does
is validate your existence"

"Turns out I couldn't see the woods for the trees"

"Is there a more larger-than-life gesture
than taking your own?
...
I believed her epic vision for our lives.
But in the end,
she didn't even believe in it
herself."

"Time stood still and circled us
...
while we waited
for our future to arrive
growing closer year by year."