Kell > Kell's Quotes

“I am not a “who,” Archivist, I am a “what.” A “who” requires a degree of identity I can’t ever retain.”
― Jonathan Sims, The Magnus Archives: Season 2

“From a purely physical perspective, it is hard to love a man without breaking him apart.”
― Julia Armfield, Salt Slow

“She has a funny impulse to kiss him then, to take his germs or whatever is wrong with him into herself on a long inhalation. A disgusting sort of perversion, love.”
― Julia Armfield, Salt Slow

“In the morning, I told the woman messaging me on the dating site that I couldn't talk to her just yet; I was sweeping the bones of a girl I had loved off the kitchen floor.”
― Julia Armfield, Salt Slow

“In the midst of all these haunted people, she sat alone, without a ghost yet longing for one, her writing like a clasp of fingers around empty air.”
― Julia Armfield, Salt Slow

“Sleeping gave me time off from myself — a delicious sort of respite. Without it I grow overfamiliar, sticky with self-contempt.”
― Julia Armfield, Salt Slow