Mad Mabel Quotes

“A silent tear slips down my cheek. It strikes me that, with all the cruelties in this world, there is still nothing quite as dangerous as kindness.”
― Sally Hepworth, Mad Mabel

“Dicked by the dangling dong of destiny”
― Sally Hepworth, Mad Mabel

“one of the many glorious things about old age is that while aspirations of beauty may linger, they sit well below aspirations of health, comfort, and absence of pain.”
― Sally Hepworth, Mad Mabel

“Because, as a few choice victims know, the only thing worse than bullying itself is the shame of speaking it aloud.”
― Sally Hepworth, Mad Mabel

“Friends are like oxygen. If you’ve been blessed enough to have always been surrounded by friends, you might think I’m overplaying this. I don’t blame you. If you’d always been surrounded by air, you wouldn’t think to credit it for your very existence either. But I’ve spent much of my life gasping for breath, so I promise you, it’s true. Friends are like oxygen.”
― Sally Hepworth, Mad Mabel

“but because people have so little regard for female friendship that they can’t fathom a closeness such as we have without the romantic element.”
― Sally Hepworth, Mad Mabel

“The child can call me Horace as long as she goes the fuck to sleep.”
― Sally Hepworth, Mad Mabel

“This,’ he would say, ‘is my mum’s spanakopita. Best spanakopita in the world.”
― Sally Hepworth, Mad Mabel

“I get it,’ Christos said after a while. ‘I’m no genius, and I like the smart girls too. I think it’s an evolutionary thing, for our survival. If we’re not smart, we have to bag a smart girl.”
― Sally Hepworth, Mad Mabel

“And yet, as I open my mouth to talk, and images of that day flash before my eyes—I feel the air shift, as though the past has slipped into the room beside me.”
― Sally Hepworth, Mad Mabel

“most kids took for granted—a life with a loving family, a friend or two, a supportive community. A life of people who noticed you were there … or, dare I say it, wanted you there?”
― Sally Hepworth, Mad Mabel

“People have so little regard for female friendship that they can’t fathom a closeness such as we have without the romantic element. More fool them.”
― Sally Hepworth, Mad Mabel

“one could gift the grieving: the quiet, steadfast presence of someone who still believes there’s joy to be found—someone willing to hunt for it on your behalf.”
― Sally Hepworth, Mad Mabel

“Never had I seen my own loneliness articulated and reflected back like that.”
― Sally Hepworth, Mad Mabel

“And there is no greater love story than that of platonic female love. The kind of love I have with Daphne.”
― Sally Hepworth, Mad Mabel

“I just thought … since I was lonely with no one to play with”
― Sally Hepworth, Mad Mabel

“whole afternoon”
― Sally Hepworth, Mad Mabel