36 quotes found
“I lose it when I can't write. I feel sad and confused and fucked off.”
“When people say, 'you're so young to be a writer,' I always reply, 'I started young because I've got a lot to write.”
“I do not do free e-books. I occasionally like to eat that thing you people call "food".”
“I suffered my own battles. I suffer still.”
“The breeze around them seemed to drop – dead – like a door to the best things had just closed.”
“He had become the sky around the sun – alive, but not really there.”
“Trap yourself inside your own brain, switch off the light, block all the escape routes, then turn your back on everything you know to be reality and try and survive there. Try. Living. Nowhere.”
“Nearly two years of dates. Still no question. Her mother and father want to set a proper date. Still no question. Her friends keep asking, when, Natasha? When? But she still hasn’t been asked The Q...”
“He remembers how someone – he forgets who – once said in a sarcastic tone, “Isn’t she just Little Miss Sweetness and Light?” – and it was a statement that put him off proposing. It made him serious...”
“Time is not an enemy as such, but a missing person, sending cryptic postcards from the past.”
“A silence absorbed them both – a lack of sound so potent it blackened the place with something richer than hate.”
“She heard him speak, but did not recognise the problem in his voice – only later did she realise it was that thing he’d been concealing – known as guilt.”
“Shush – it’s silent time again.”
“I’ve always thought that the best moments can come from the worst times.”
“Nader refused to bring her the feathery dream catcher – her asabikeshiinh – with its willow-web and invisible ‘lady spider’ apparently weaving her spells – an object Bea insisted always hung above ...”
“I’ll be your friend until you find a better one.”
