Looking Glass Sound Quotes

“Writers are monsters, really. We eat everything we see.”
― Catriona Ward, Looking Glass Sound

“Potatoes make everything okay.”
― Catriona Ward, Looking Glass Sound

“No one told me that grief would feel so much like fear.”
― Catriona Ward, Looking Glass Sound

“The thing about anger is, you mustn’t let it drop or you might find out how you really feel.”
― Catriona Ward, Looking Glass Sound

“You can'ŧ get to know people after they're gone. All you have are memories, moments, and that doesn't make a whole person.”
― Catriona Ward, Looking Glass Sound

“There can be comfort in a disguise. Being who you are can be lonely.”
― Catriona Ward, Looking Glass Sound

“I don’t think people should live by the ocean. It’s too big to understand.”
― Catriona Ward, Looking Glass Sound

“As I get older I see more and more how fluid a thing time is. There are so many ways to slip in and out of it. The wonder is that we ever stick in the now.”
― Catriona Ward, Looking Glass Sound

“The human heart is deep and dark with many chambers. Things hide down there.”
― Catriona Ward, Looking Glass Sound

“Writer’s block isn’t being unable to write, I discover – it’s being unable to feel.”
― Catriona Ward, Looking Glass Sound

“Fucked up will save you. Fucked up will set you free.”
― Catriona Ward, Looking Glass Sound

“I wonder when you stop marking time, as an adult – when life starts. What would I even do with it if I had the freedom – live?”
― Catriona Ward, Looking Glass Sound

“It’s the kind of laughter that only comes to kids, I think. Grownups are too used to the absurdity of the world.”
― Catriona Ward, Looking Glass Sound

“Writing things down purifies them,' he goes on. 'This world is so hard. We need something better. We need books.”
― Catriona Ward, Looking Glass Sound

“I wonder when you stop marking time, as an adult - when life starts. What would I even do with it if I had the freedom - live?”
― Catriona Ward, Looking Glass Sound

“But books don’t work like that. They are outside time. They are everywhere.”
― Catriona Ward, Looking Glass Sound

“It’s all going to be part of the book. Writers are monsters, really. We eat everything we see.”
― Catriona Ward, Looking Glass Sound

“Just doing some background reading alongside my reading,’ he says cheerfully. ‘I’ve been thinking about autofiction lately. You know, a kind of fictionalised memoir, a hybrid of a novel and an autobiography. Like this.’ He points at In Search of Lost Time.”
― Catriona Ward, Looking Glass Sound

“As I get older I see more and more how fluid a thing time is. there are so many ways to slip in and out of it. The wonder is that we ever stay in the now.”
― Catriona Ward, Looking Glass Sound

“You can't get to know people after they're gone. All you have are memories, moments, and that doesn't make a whole person.”
― Catriona Ward, Looking Glass Sound

“You can’t get to know people after they’re gone. All you have are memories, moments, and that doesn’t make a whole person.”
― Catriona Ward, Looking Glass Sound

“You can't get to know people after they're gone.
All you have are memories, moments, and that doesn't make a whole person.”
― Catriona Ward, Looking Glass Sound

“… but the thought of someone taking care of me is seductive in its strength.”
― Catriona Ward, Looking Glass Sound

“Good and bad can feel like the same thing, I think, if they’re intense enough.”
― Catriona Ward, Looking Glass Sound

“They used to call it a nervous breakdown,’ she says. ‘I like that better than any of those scientific terms. Because that’s what it feels like, doesn’t it? Like everything in you is broken.”
― Catriona Ward, Looking Glass Sound

“it’s time to start the ghastly business of the day all over again.”
― Catriona Ward, Looking Glass Sound

“We go up onto Pursing Hill into the cold, and it does snow, it lands in stars in his hair and lashes. Moments afterwards they’re gone, vanished in the warmth of him.”
― Catriona Ward, Looking Glass Sound

“There are only two life jackets so after some argument we agree that the only solution is for none of us to wear one. ‘One dies, we all die,’ I say. It’s pleasing.”
― Catriona Ward, Looking Glass Sound

“It’s lonely being with family sometimes.”
― Catriona Ward, Looking Glass Sound