Daisy Darker

by Alice Feeney

the secret to having it all is knowing that you already do.

You can see fear on the surface of some people, while others learn to hide their worries inside themselves,

Doesn’t everyone wonder who they might have been if they weren’t who they were?

we always seem to regress to the versions of us we were as children. I suspect everybody time travels when reunited with their family. We think we are old when we are still young, and we think we are still young when we have grown old.

Some people can’t see things how they are; they only see how they used to be.

‘The future is a promise we can still choose whether to keep. The past is a promise we’ve already broken.’

Maybe people wouldn’t complain about getting old all the time if they were scared that they never would.

But if I do know more than most, it’s because I read. Books will teach you anything you want to know, and they tend to be more honest than people.”

Little girls who lose their fathers spend their lives looking for them in every man they meet.