On the side of the angels Quotes

“He is mad.
I am mad too, with an inward curtain-like madness. A pall.
There is no illumination.”
― Elizabeth Smart, On the side of the angels: The second volume of the journals of Elizabeth Smart

“... I have ceased to care about anything. I have no personal ambition, or even the desire that people call me nice, or pretty, or witty. Nor do I have any use for sensation, nor do I care. Cessation. It is a technical circle, encircling, cycle, of giving the body to be burned, but having no charity.

... What can I do? For without love I am truly dead.”
― Elizabeth Smart, On the side of the angels: The second volume of the journals of Elizabeth Smart

“Do I want to, can I face my own pain alone now? Shock keeps horror at bay. Hands off. Distanced by mist and pride and drink and friends and necessities like food, babies, fires... So the pain sits still, crouching, heavy, occupying all my inside, always, all the time, whatever my outside does.”
― Elizabeth Smart, On the side of the angels: The second volume of the journals of Elizabeth Smart