The Lido Quotes

“When Kate was younger, stories were her friends when she found people challenging. She searched them out, hiding among them in the library and tucking herself into their pages. She folded herself into the shape of Hermione Granger or George from The Famous Five or Catherine Moreland from Northanger Abbey and tried to be them for a day. When she started secondary school her friends were the characters she met in the pages of her books. They sat with her in the library as she snuck mouthfuls of sandwich behind books so the librarian wouldn't see. (The librarian always saw, but pretended not to.)”
― Libby Page, The Lido

“Sometimes hope can be the most painful thing.”
― Libby Page, The Lido

“When you're my age you'll understand,' she says. 'You begin to miss yourself.”
― Libby Page, The Lido

“Maybe I was incredibly naive, but I wanted all of him, always. That was the only way I knew how to love him.”
― Libby Page, The Lido

“Love is love like a tree is a tree. It can be a sapling or a hundred years old oak, but it still has a rout, lifetime and is left on mercy and disfavor of the seasons”
― Libby Page, The Lido

“She took the loneliness out of being alone.”
― Libby Page, The Lido

“Never be sorry,’ she says, a storm in her eyes. ‘Never be sorry for feeling. Never be sorry for falling in love.”
― Libby Page, The Lido

“In a large townhouse, a family is spread out across its rooms, each living in their own state but under one flag”
― Libby Page, The Lido

“Maybe it's only about one thing, but even that is something. At that moment the darkness, although still lurking from background, withdraws.”
― Libby Page, The Lido

“It was rare that she got dressed up and went out, but each time a dinner party or the Christmas dinner with the other library staff came round she would stand in front of the mirror asking George to tell her if the dress was too short or too long, whether her makeup was okay, and if her hair looked fussy or too plain. He always smiled and told her she looked beautiful but she didn't believe him. She would believe him now - she was beautiful. She hopes Kate realizes it before she is eighty-seven.”
― Libby Page, The Lido

“But he only had eleven chest-hairs’ worth of life inside him, and he knew that wasn’t enough to help her.”
― Libby Page, The Lido

“She can't see the deep end but knows that if she keeps kicking she will eventually reach it.”
― Libby Page, The Lido

“...around puberty when the girls' bodies felt to them like uncomfortable clothes they'd love to wriggle out of. She remembers the transformation: the giggling rabble became a subdued group by the water's edge, arms wrapped around themselves to cover the shame of their perfect, hideous bodies.”
― Libby Page, The Lido

“Tickets for the Brixton Academy tonight,’ yells a ticket tout at the station entrance. ‘Buying and selling, tickets for the”
― Libby Page, The Lido