Everything/Nothing/Someone Quotes

“Starting at seven years old I said that the only feelings I could feel were “guilt, regret, and nervous excitement.” I didn’t know the word “anxiety” so I called it “nervous excitement.” My anxiety left me painfully indecisive.”
― Alice Carrière, Everything/Nothing/Someone

“I couldn’t tell if there was a nascent someone huddled within the grandiose construct I had managed to assemble out of the loudest, brightest bits of my parents.”
― Alice Carrière, Everything/Nothing/Someone

“Inside this anger I missed the mother I no longer had. I missed the mother I never had. I missed the mother I couldn’t have.”
― Alice Carrière, Everything/Nothing/Someone