The Things We Left Unsaid

by Emma Kennedy

‘I met a writer once, a friend of my mother’s. He told me it took him forty years to work out what he wanted to say and then he wrote one great book. I’m not sure I’m that patient. It’s so easy to be a pale imitation of everyone else, but to be yourself, that’s the trick. If you’re not going to be great, what’s the point?’

People treat you the way you let them.