Erin Kelly Quotes
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There is a condition worse than blindness, and that is seeing something that isn’t there.
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A good mother loves fiercely but ultimately brings up her children to thrive without her.
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But the toilets, as everywhere, are great levelers. Here in the ladies’ lavatory the flush is still broken and the dispenser has still run out of soap, and the locks on the doors still don’t work properly. Inefficient cisterns dribble noisily, making discreet speech impossible. If I wanted to say anything, I’d have to shout.
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I cried so hard that evening that I graduated from tissues to kitchen rolls to towels.
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The angry mob of villagers wield camera phones, the twenty-first century equivalent of pitchforks and flaming torches.
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If revenge is a dish best served cold, confession should be dished up piping hot or not at all.
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Waiting for something horrible to happen is almost more draining than it actually happening.
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A vacuum should be weightless, but I stagger under the burden of it.
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Nothing rips you out of the future like pain; your world gets reduced to the searing moment.
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As this went on, I realised that it is more tiring to be bored than to be engaged.
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When Jesse started to cry, I found that I'd been expecting it. I know a breakdown when I see one. In the kitchenette behind me, my phone flashed into life, but I knew the importance of what Dr. Adil calls full-body listening when someone is trying to unburden. You take your attention away at the wrong moment, you even mistime your blinks, and the trust is gone.
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Jocelyn Knight in Wessex County Court will be like seeing Katharine Hepburn in weekly rep.
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The moment you think about an act in terms of how, you are already halfway to doing it.
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That's the thing about sleepwalking . You can walk, eat, have conversations and even drive cars in perfect safety. The danger comes from waking up too quickly.
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I do not know what is going to happen to us. I am frightened but I feel strong. I have the strength of a woman who has everything to loose.
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The stress hormones of adrenaline and cortisol, when pumped in sufficient quantity, rival anything you can smoke or swallow. Within a year of the Lizard, I would envy those who could dry out in rehab. When you suffer from anxiety, you carry an endless supply.
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There is something of her in me; I feel it, behind my ribs. I like to think of it as all the love she never got to give me.
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...so I blocked it from my mind. I could do that with things I didn't want to think about, like snapping shut a book.
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If I waited for a proper occasion to get dressed up I'd never wear half of these clothes. Put on the clothes and you make things happen to match them. It doesn't work the other way around.
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You can get by in the foreign language, you can communicate, but the pleasure of speaking to those who understand every subtlety and nuance must make you want to cry with relief.
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Leibniz said, Music is the mind counting without being conscious it’s counting. An eclipse is maths; it’s the most beautiful maths there is.
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Don’t you think it’s more important how you treat the person next to you?
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Minton, all fleur-de-lys and fiddly curlicues—they go for thousands on eBay.
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The fears of a few seconds ago seem unfounded, as nightmares always do when the light comes back on.