Pearl Quotes

“When someone takes their life, they don’t only steal the future out from under our feet, they also desecrate their past. It makes it hard to hold on to the good things about them. And no one deserves to be judged on the worst five minutes of their life, even if those five minutes turn out to be their last.”
― Siân Hughes, Pearl

“Even though the past is folded over and over like puff pastry and my mother, of all people, would understand just how I am wrapped up in its layers and cannot find my way out.”
― Siân Hughes, Pearl

“Forgetting is not the worst thing. Remembering is not the worst thing either. The worst thing is when you have forgotten, and then you remember. It catches you out. Your forget for a moment, a day, a week, a month, but the effect is the same each time you remember. You feel it rushing back around your lymphatic system, and you remember the hurt.”
― Siân Hughes, Pearl

“And there is no natural law, no easy code to work our which is which, the fixable and the unfixable. That is the trouble. You have to keep trying to fix them all to find out.”
― Siân Hughes, Pearl