The Nesting Quotes

“Perceptions, I had learned, were roughly ninety-nine per cent to do with the mindset of the perceiver and the other one per cent to do with actual fact.”
― C.J. Cooke, The Nesting

“but the thing with illness, mental or otherwise, is that it tends to annihilate your capacity for argument.”
― C.J. Cooke, The Nesting

“Once upon a time there was a river who, like all rivers, knew exactly where she wished to go. Some people willed her to change her course, and when she did not bend to their will, they began to tear her apart, pebble by pebble, stone by stone. Of course, the river won in the end, and returned to her route with a wet sigh of relief, running the length of her spine against the familiar gray rocks and stretching luxuriantly against the grooves of earth she had known for centuries. And she made sure that the people paid dearly for their foolishness. from P. Johansen’s Book of Remembered Norse Folk Tales, 1999 (trans. A. Faraday) 1 endless dark NOW”
― C.J. Cooke, The Nesting

“This is the thing with depression, and particularly with antipsychotics—your internal clock goes AWOL, as does your libido, hunger, balance, focus, sense of humor, and short-term memory.”
― C.J. Cooke, The Nesting

“I didn’t get a medical note, so they sacked me. It was probably illegal, but the thing with illness, mental or otherwise, is that it tends to annihilate your capacity for argument.”
― C.J. Cooke, The Nesting

“I ended up spending the week there. It felt nice, like a little community of bruised, terrified, and addicted women. Jill ran the place with a team of volunteers.”
― C.J. Cooke, The Nesting