Female friendships, most of them anyway, need nurturing. A lot of nurturing. And I’ve never much enjoyed that. Never been especially good at it, one on one.
“You couldn't be a little bit human in the same way you couldn't be a little bit in love. It was all or nothing. A drop was an ocean. And maybe being human wasn't even down to DNA in the end. Maybe it was about the ability to love, when you knew love was irrational. Yeah, maybe being human was to make no sense.”
― Echo Boy
― Echo Boy
“But if everyone was made to look perfect, then no one would be special because being special meant being different, by offering something that wasn't on offer elsewhere.”
― Echo Boy
― Echo Boy
“Its single mast reached high towards the stars and its slender form creaked with every lapping wave.”
― Unwoven and Torn
― Unwoven and Torn
“When you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.”
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“We live in a world where joy and empathy and pleasure are all around us, there for the noticing.”
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