Joseph

“I think about you. But I don't say it anymore.”
― Marguerite Duras, Hiroshima mon amour

“The thing is, when you start smoking, you think you’ve bought a fun baby dragon. You think you’ve charmed a fabulous beast, as your toy, that will impress all that see it. And then, twenty years later, you wake up with your lungs full of cinder and shite, and the bed on fire, and you realize the dragon grew up—and burned your fucking house down.”
― Caitlin Moran, How to Build a Girl

“I saw what an achievement it was—the will of a small, countable number of men and women who wrote, and thought, and marched, and sang. If you’d killed the right two hundred people, this future would never have come at all. Perhaps this future had come so late because, previously, they had killed the right two hundred people—over and over, through history.”
― Caitlin Moran, How to Build a Girl

“Our new budget now, with no wriggle room for anything extra—not a pot of jam, or a new pair of shoes. We cannot do anything other than stay very still. We are on 11 percent less of was-never-enough-in-the-first-place.”
― Caitlin Moran, How to Build a Girl