Oh Dear Silvia Quotes

“Two people occupying the same air. Nothing else in common. Just oxygen.”
― Dawn French, Oh Dear Silvia

“She didn't know that I was dead inside, that I had ruled out the chance of joy ever again. Of that night and every other night to follow. I had fully settled into my unhappiness and wore it comfortably. So comfortably in fact, that it was barely perceptible to others. It just fitted me so well. My suit of misery hung happily on me. So happily that she assumed I could have "a lovely night" in it. The loveliness she referred to was so extremely far out of reach for me. It as far as... the bloody moon.”
― Dawn French, Oh Dear Silvia

“She didnt know that i was dead inside, that i had ruled out the chance of joy ever again. For that night and every night to follow. I had fully settled into my unhappiness and wore it comfortably”
― dawn french, Oh Dear Silvia

“I was so blue that I felt I'd turned black inside.”
― Dawn French, Oh Dear Silvia

“Now, he numbly stands stock-still, in abject fear that this whole catastrophe may well be his doing.”
― Dawn French, Oh Dear Silvia

“I am genuinely dull. Duller than the world's dullest-ever thing, so dull it's not worth the time it takes to imagine it.”
― Dawn French, Oh Dear Silvia

“it ate away at me when i was already full of holes”
― Dawn French, Oh Dear Silvia

“We were a bit like bacon and eggs, where y'know, the chicken is involved, but the pig is really committed? I totally gave myself to it just as we promised, "for better or worse", and you didn't see it like that.”
― Dawn French, Oh Dear Silvia