Invisible Girl Quotes

“His muscles slacken and I raise my other arm to make a circle round him and hug him tightly to me, this broken man, holding him as he shudders and sobs, the same way I held my girl when she needed me, when she crawled on my lap all those years ago and pressed her face in my neck, the same way I would like to be held someday, if there is ever anyone to love me again. I had so much love, once. So much, I bathed in it. I thought I knew how lucky I was, but when it’s engulfing you, you can’t see it. You breathe it in, swallow it every day and become accustomed. You can’t stand back and see it for what it is: extraordinary and priceless – and fragile, too.”
― Jill Childs, Invisible Girl

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― Jill Childs, Invisible Girl