Falling Animals Quotes

“Guilt is a weight, a leaden chain; it can morph and stretch itself to every space, like the supple frame of a cuttlefish. But guilt has no heart and cannot live forever: each heartbeat destroys a little universe, brings another one into life.”
― Sheila Armstrong, Falling Animals

“Death has many pieces. At the very end, our lives fractured, and the shards swam away to where they belonged. The still-living carry those parts around with them: kind words and gentle skin-touches and sweet, sweet tears. The best parts of us are elsewhere, spread out across the land in a fine mist of memory. Our voices are the last thrumming of an insect's wing on a web.
All that lodges here is the shape of our ending.”
― Sheila Armstrong, Falling Animals