Falling Under Quotes

“I wonder whether I will ever breathe air that is clear of his ghost.”
― Danielle Younge-Ullman, Falling Under

“Certain memories, certain thoughts,are holes...holes ripped in you, through which precious things escape and leave you wanting, needing, gaping open. Laughter and belonging and comfort gush out, leaving their tracks but not their substance.
And you are left empty, a skeleton,a shell with wind rushing through you and a sensation of sinking, barely existing...”
― Danielle Younge-Ullman, Falling Under

“Because this is the love I want. This is a good love, a love that could be right. And if I accept it,if I give back to him what is in me to give, I will have purchased him with my soul. My soul, that has been broken and cobbled back together, with some of the pieces not quite fitting right. And though I believe in time healing these things, still, I do not love with lightness...”
― Danielle Younge-Ullman, Falling Under

“If you are touched wrong, if you are brought out and touched when you are not strong, when you do not have the dark of the attic corner, the walls at your back to save you…anyone who touches you can hurt you.”
― Danielle Younge-Ullman, Falling Under