Three Things About Elsie

by Joanna Cannon

‘We all are. Every one of us is damaged. We need the faults, the breaks, the fracture lines.’ ‘We do?’ I said. ‘Of course we do. However else would all the light get in?’

Because sometimes you need to run away. You need to believe in something without looking for proof. You need to enjoy a thing without finding a need to measure its value. You need to run away from a familiar life, into something quite unfamiliar. Even if you are so old, the only running away you will ever do again is in your mind.