In Bloom Quotes

“Did Tesco. Pretty uneventful except for the fact I couldn’t stop farting. Something I’ve eaten despises me. I dropped one by the Lurpak, did a complete circuit, went back to get milk and it was still there in the air, lingering like a Dementor.”
― C.J. Skuse, In Bloom

“Erica’s rattling through a long list of contentments, which surprises me as she has a face that would make a blind child cry.”
― C.J. Skuse, In Bloom

“to lose your mother is to be partially unanchored to the Earth. Like there had always been these ropes fixing me in place – Mum and Dad. When Mum went, one of the ropes snapped. When Dad went, I didn’t feel like I was anchored anywhere.”
― C.J. Skuse, In Bloom

“I looked down at her – my daughter – her tiny hands pushed up to her chin – fingers splayed like her face was the centre of a flower. This little girl who had grown inside me, against my will, forcing me to feel things I didn’t want to, didn’t think I could. She was part of me. Built of my skin, my bones, my hairs, my nails. She was wound up so tightly within me, I couldn’t untie her now if I wanted to.”
― C.J. Skuse, In Bloom

“lose your mother is to be partially unanchored to the Earth. Like there had always been these ropes fixing me in place – Mum and Dad. When Mum went, one of the ropes snapped.”
― C.J. Skuse, In Bloom

“The odour of the sweet pea is so offensive to flies that it will drive them out of a sick-room, though not in the slightest degree disagreeable to the patient.’ – A TIP FROM The 1899 Old Farmer’s Almanac”
― C.J. Skuse, In Bloom