A Small Madness Quotes

“Help. It was the sort of word that was usually screamed. It was the sort of need that usually required screaming. People yelled help when there was a fire or they were injured or someone was attacking them. Other people responded quickly and efficiently to this yelling. But a whispered help, that was different. Whispered helps are full of secrets and shameful desperation. Rather than halve the burden, a whispered help will divide the crisis and let it gain strength and complexity: a sort of emotional mitosis. Not unlike passing a disease on to the one trying to save you. And if nothing would change as a result of the whisper anyway, if all it would do is bring about the inevitable outcome, only sooner, then why bother? Better just to fall down and wait, isn’t it?”
― Dianne Touchell, A Small Madness