“There's a darkness in each of us, afraid to show itself, wrestling with such blunt tools as words and deeds to make itself known to the darkness in another person similarly hidden behind walls of camouflage, disguise, interpretation. Honesty is a knife that we can use to pare away those layers, but one slip, go too deep, and who knows what injuries might be inflicted … The wounds an honest tongue can open sometimes take a lifetime to heal.”
― The Girl and the Stars
― The Girl and the Stars
“This is how I lived back then– through books. I locked myself into their stories, dreamt of their characters at night, pretended to be them. They were my armour against the hard edges of reality. I carried them with me wherever I went, like a talisman in my pocket, thinking of them as almost more real than the people around me, who spoke and lived in denial, destined, I thought, to never do anything worth recounting.”
― Swimming in the Dark
― Swimming in the Dark
“None of them really wanted to listen to someone else’s story anyway; they only wanted to tell their own.”
― A Little Life
― A Little Life
“And yet, it occurs to me now that we can never run with our lies indefinitely. Sooner or later we are forced to confront their darkness. We can choose then when, not the if. And the longer we wait, the more painful and uncertain it will be.”
― Swimming in the Dark
― Swimming in the Dark
“The dead know something we don’t, although they keep it to themselves.”
― Angela Carter's Book of Fairy Tales
― Angela Carter's Book of Fairy Tales
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