As You Were Quotes

“All these parts of me, that somehow made me, all these odd bits, that sometimes looked nice and more often didn't, when I pieced them all together, even if I didn't feel connected to them, they were essentially me.”
― Elaine Feeney, As You Were

“And love slid up on me. I didn't look for it. I tried, if I'm honest, to utterly avoid it. I liked Alex and so I quickly showed him all my worst traits, to warn him. Still, he stayed. I had simply wanted to watch the swans, to escape, but we drifted along as a sort of a couple for some time, made no plans, visited the swans every weekend at one of the canal spots, until he proposed there, with a ring tied onto a milk carton.”
― Elaine Feeney, As You Were

“Oh, yes, a Friday, a Friday is a great day for a new beginning, because if it doesn't work out, you can start again on Monday. Clean sheet.”
― Elaine Feeney, As You Were

“That part of west that was full of rocks and full up with sadness in the little sacks grown men develop under their eyes, the accumulation of tears they don't cry as they walk along, shut down, like an out-of-season seaside café.”
― Elaine Feeney, As You Were