Quotes from Naomi Wallace

If you're in despair, you don't know how to be part of your own life anymore.

Our lives are but a splash of water on a stone, nothing more. Then I am the stone on which they fell, and they have marked me. So beware, because I loved them, and they have marked me.

I once had a lover and his arms were so strong that my skull was crushed in his grip. With his bare hands he plunged between my ribs and took hold of my heart. A wafer between his fingers it dissolved. Sometimes I wake up in the dark and stand in the hall and I can feel the cold draft pass freely through my chest as though there were nothing there.

You can't break my heart. It's made of water.

You won't take anything from me that I don't want to give you, Dalton. And that's a fact.