To Rest Our Minds and Bodies Quotes

“All of my favourite books were about vaguely disembodied cerebral girls and if I wrote some book it would be about a vaguely disembodied cerebral girl too”
― Harriet Armstrong, To Rest Our Minds and Bodies

“everything carried within it some great weight, some concealed and central core meaning. There were ideas like abominableness and holiness hidden within everything, even things that seemed like nothing. In the end everything would be weighed down with meaning. People would look back and see that they had missed the point completely, that they had really understood nothing.”
― Harriet Armstrong, To Rest Our Minds and Bodies

“In case you need me. That sentence, too, felt painfully cruel. We both knew that there were no situations left in which I would be able to come to the door of Luke’s room and stand outside of it saying I need you. All of those situations had been used up already.”
― Harriet Armstrong, To Rest Our Minds and Bodies

“If I had stayed on that mattress forever and Luke had stayed on top of his bed and turned away from me I would have lived forever seeing his shadow.”
― Harriet Armstrong, To Rest Our Minds and Bodies