Always You and Me

by Dani Atkins

There is probably a special place in hell for people who lie to someone who’s dying, and I was already halfway there.

I learnt that you can’t outrun grief because it always knows where to find you, but you can keep yourself so busy that it can only squeeze into the gaps of your life, instead of burying you under an avalanche of sadness.

‘When people lie to you all the time you get good at spotting it.

Some threads run so deep in your tapestry, perhaps it’s impossible to ever unpick them all.