Negative Space Quotes

“maybe stability was something I could relax into. Maybe it wasn’t about constantly striving until I successfully became a different person, but about creating a life with room to exhale. The idea that stability could be a state of calm, rather than a prize always just out of reach, was a revelation.”
― Lilly Dancyger, Negative Space

“When you don’t know how to do the things you’re expected to do, it can be so much easier to declare them bullshit and say you never wanted to be a part of it anyway. But how sweet to fall into step, to feel like maybe you know what you’re doing just enough to fake your way to that magic place called stability, where you’ll finally be able to let your guard down.”
― Lilly Dancyger, Negative Space

“Heroin is insidious—it doesn’t destroy all at once. It rots a person, slowly, from the inside out, so that by the time you can see the damage, it’s often too late.”
― Lilly Dancyger, Negative Space

“They say all the cells in your body regenerate every seven years. When I turned twenty, my father had been dead for eight—so if that theory is true, no cell in my body had ever been on the planet at the same time as him. I’d changed, cell by cell, into a person he never knew.”
― Lilly Dancyger, Negative Space