It’s so dark - as if all the lights are just there to make the other places seem darker.
Margaret MahyTags: darkness darkness-and-light
Fear can give you urgent wings.
Margaret MahyTags: fear
I don't know everything I feel, but I do know this. You mustn't ever want anyone but me, Big Science. If you look at any other girl I'll kill her.
Margaret MahyPulverized by literature,' thought Miss Laburnum. 'The ideal way for a librarian to die.
Margaret MahyTags: librarians
Practise make it perfect!
Margaret MahyShe wanted everyone kind and affectionate, not passionate and tormenting – everything open, no maggoty secrets and silences, and no arguments with other, darker arguments hidden in them.
Margaret MahyTags: family-life
These were true things, Laura knew, but they were only part of the truth which was something less orderly than Kate made it sound. Some parts of the full, disorderly truth were lodged in Kate and Laura like splinters of corroding steel. Their feelings had grown around the sharp, wounding edges which didn't hurt anymore but were still there, fossils of pain laid down in the mixed-up strata of memory.
Margaret MahyAnyhow, isn't it a bit wrong to think happiness is all smooth and serene. Isn't it mostly a great energetic struggle - you against the universe - a great whopping opponent, with the referee in its pocket?
Margaret MahyThis was the hidden machinery of life, not a clean, clinical well-oiled engine, monitored by a thousand meticulous dials, but a crazy, stumbling contraption made up of strange things roughly fitted together – things like a huge water tap, the dogleg stairs, cheese in the soap dish, and a crocheted tea cosy stiff with dirt and topped by a doll’s broken face.
Margaret MahyFattening!” said Troy, looking at Tabitha’s round face and plump arms.
“If I don’t mind being fat, I don’t see why other people should feel they’ve got to mind for me,” Tabitha replied cheerfully. “And pies have got some food value – they’ve got vitamins or something, haven’t they, Claire?
Tags: body-image fattening
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