Shy Creatures Quotes

“The fact that his ire was aimed not at them, but at some nearby object that confounded him didn’t make it any easier to ignore; for quiet people, raised voices are experienced as a kind of aggression even when directed elsewhere.”
― Clare Chambers, Shy Creatures

“The past is always with me, but it’s also the past. It didn’t ruin me. It didn’t.”
― Clare Chambers, Shy Creatures

“In all failed relationships there is a point that passes unnoticed at the time, which can later be identified as the beginning of the decline. For”
― Clare Chambers, Shy Creatures

“Already there was between them that invisible thread that joins two people who have noticed each other for the first time.”
― Clare Chambers, Shy Creatures

“There was something luxurious in revisiting an old sorrow from the safe haven of present happiness...”
― Clare Chambers, Shy Creatures

“Her face was powdered, her lips a ghastly clownish red. She didn’t normally use make-up and wore it now with a kind of wincing discomfort, like new shoes.”
― Clare Chambers, Shy Creatures

“In all failed relationships there is a point that passes unnoticed at the time, which can later be identified as the beginning of the decline.”
― Clare Chambers, Shy Creatures