Scenes of a Graphic Nature Quotes

“I just don't want it to feel like it's over before it starts.”
― Caroline O'Donoghue, Scenes of a Graphic Nature

“We took turns at who was the big spoon and who was the little one. Laura would complain that I was too thin, too many bones, and that made me a terrible big spoon. But I liked feeling as though I was protecting her. Like I was her scrawny little guard dog, protecting her from the draught coming in from the single-glazed windows. There was no question that she was the superior big spoon: all marshmallow curves and hair that would occasionally float over my shoulder so it looked like I had the kind of princess femininity that came so easily to her.”
― Caroline O'Donoghue, Scenes of a Graphic Nature

“If I had known it would end so quickly, I would have treasured it more. (...) Don't go, I beg her silently. Don't go, don't go, don't go.”
― Caroline O'Donoghue, Scenes of a Graphic Nature

“If I had known it would end so quickly, I would have treasured it more.”
― Caroline O'Donoghue, Scenes of a Graphic Nature

“Well,’ Nick shrugs, ‘that's how it is. Not everyone’s mad on the English here and don't expect anyone to feel sorry for you about it.’

Laura glares at him but doesn't say anything more. No one talks to her like this. She is trying to guess at how much arguing power she has in this conversation. She is English, and therefore the descendant of colonisers, so Nick, being from a nation of colonised, should have the conversational right of way here. But she's also a woman, and therefore vulnerable, and therefore deserving of his respect. This is advanced privileged mathematics, the kind of social algorithm that comes naturally to Londoners like Laura.”
― Caroline O'Donoghue, Scenes of a Graphic Nature