Status Updates From Sipsworth

"Truly, there was no escape. Those who in life has held back in matters of love would end in bitterness. While the people like her, who had filled the corners of each day, found themselves marooned on a scatter of memories."

why am I crying over this old lady and her mouse 😭💕

“[…] the brick cottage where Helen had grown up was still there. Now and again she walked that way into town. The front garden had been paved over, but cracks in the cement sometimes bled flowers she could name, as though just below the surface of this world are the ones we remember, still going on.”