Kira K

“Den was a nasty piece of work, and had only got nastier as he'd grown up. It really wasn't his fault, though. As is so often the way, he'd grown up in a toxic household and didn't know who to talk to, or how to express his emotions. The older he got, the angrier he got at life, and blamed everyone around him for it.”
― Candice Carty-Williams, Notting Hill Carnival (Quick Reads): A West Side Story

“But I'm already living the rest of my life
not under conditions of my choosing
wired into pain”
― Julia Darling, The Poetry Cure

“Daydreaming comes easy to the ill:
slowed down to the speed of waiting rooms,
you learn to hang suspended in the wallpaper,
to drift among the magazines and plants,
feeling a strange love
for the time that might be killing you.”
― Julia Darling, The Poetry Cure

“I just want to thank you, you know. Yeah, I ended up in hospital, but the path I was on wasn't a good one. I could have ended up somewhere worse. And everything that happened, because of you, showed me that.”
― Candice Carty-Williams, Notting Hill Carnival (Quick Reads): A West Side Story