remember you must live. remember you most love. remainder you mist leaf.

There is a kind of poetry, bad and good, in evrything, everywhere we look.

Then I saw her smile so close to my eye that there was nothing to see but the smile and the thought came into my head that I’d never been inside a smile before. Who’d have thought being inside a smile would be so ancient and so modern both at once

A game one of my sisters will play with me in my first year of being alive is called Good Baby, Bad Baby. This consists of being told I am a good baby until I smile and laugh, then being told I am a bad baby until I burst into tears. This training will stand me in good stead all through my life.

I want to be bored. But I can't. But I really don't want to be this thing that I'm having to be instead of being bored.

Stella Duffy is a writer who never lets you down.

The whole point is, we can forget. It’s important that we forget some things. Otherwise we’d go round the world carrying a hodload of stuff we just don’t need.