Vertigo Quotes

“But there is not much time to regret other people, their actions or inactions. Isn’t drowning itself enough for one day? Here”
― Joanna Walsh, Vertigo

“All holidays are nightmares: you save up all year and what do you find at the other end but someone else’s house with all their own particular domestic nasties?”
― Joanna Walsh, Vertigo

“I drink so the scum of things rises to the surface.”
― Joanna Walsh, Vertigo

“Always you wish to be in two places at the same time, always you want to be connected.”
― Joanna Walsh, Vertigo

“The time spent cleaning up outweighs the time consuming.”
― Joanna Walsh, Vertigo

“When she becomes powerful, it is not a power she will know what to do with.”
― Joanna Walsh, Vertigo

“Drunk. Something that happens to you, like a glass of water, and that happens in the past tense, even as you are drunk in the present, as the action taken to provoke the state was taken in the past.”
― Joanna Walsh, Vertigo

“We long for frost, we who have waited so long for summer.”
― Joanna Walsh, Vertigo

“How long before the parts of my body realized, independently, that something was wrong and arrived, severally, at panic? Panic is a still thing. I have felt it before: each limb nerve organ coming into extreme alert unrelated to any other, ready for action, but who knows what action, as there is no action that could help here.”
― Joanna Walsh, Vertigo

“The third person. There was no sign of this happiness on the outside, she knew. She was bored by this happiness that seemed out of place, impatient to get rid of it. The feeling was less pleasurable than she had imagined it might have been, less well-defined, and when she felt along its strings she found it was not easily traced or attached to the objects she thought it might have been attached to. Perhaps it was not attached to anything at all.”
― Joanna Walsh, Vertigo

“I tread water, going neither forward nor back … then there are a few moments. There”
― Joanna Walsh, Vertigo

“I say “you.” Of course I mean “me.” Far”
― Joanna Walsh, Vertigo

“The surface of the sea is round when viewed at eye level, like the horizon, like the earth. It tips, flat as a plate, each time I do, both hemispheres reorienting around me whatever my angle.”
― Joanna Walsh, Vertigo

“I go back into the sea because there is nothing else to do. Or, there is, but I do not do it.”
― Joanna Walsh, Vertigo

“Summer is a platform from which to think about the fall.”
― Joanna Walsh, Vertigo

“It’s September next week, and summer’s already turned its back. Already, the weather’s stopped being accountable.”
― Joanna Walsh, Vertigo

“We too have built an edifice from which no one wants anything but escape.”
― Joanna Walsh, Vertigo

“There are hidden patterns in everything. I should be looking at the waitresses who come from somewhere else and who are not here for a holiday, for whom being here is only a step to being elsewhere.”
― Joanna Walsh, Vertigo

“There’s nothing like love’s dilution to keep things in proportion. At”
― Joanna Walsh, Vertigo

“But, even when young, I never paid enough attention to looking good in a bikini so age is perhaps not the most important factor.”
― Joanna Walsh, Vertigo

“There is now very little in my mind. On”
― Joanna Walsh, Vertigo

“Out we get, and away we go, the young, the old, and the failed girls.”
― Joanna Walsh, Vertigo

“She shifts and—vast, monumental in sleep—becomes tiny in movement. I”
― Joanna Walsh, Vertigo

“My daughter wears tight clothes too, but they do not contain her.”
― Joanna Walsh, Vertigo

“Elegance is a function of failure. The elegant always know what it is to have failed. There is no need for elegance in success: success itself is enough. But elegance in failure is essential. I”
― Joanna Walsh, Vertigo

“That’s not true. Sometimes it hurts to ask. The”
― Joanna Walsh, Vertigo

“Time, when it is limited, is more beautiful.”
― Joanna Walsh, Vertigo

“They make me sure the view is a view, even though sometimes they are in the way of it. A”
― Joanna Walsh, Vertigo

“Luckily there are so very many new places in the world. II.”
― Joanna Walsh, Vertigo

“They have given up on everything here that is old: age is accelerated in this young country by the sea.”
― Joanna Walsh, Vertigo