Berlie Doherty Quotes

“Maybe we all want to burn off across the horizon, into space, perhaps, to take off into some unknown territory and meet ourselves out there.”

″... there was nothing left to do to fill in the massive gap between that day and the next: my old life and my future. In a way I was dreading it, leaving all that behind, knowing that nothing would ever be the same again.”

“They all began the same way: Dear Nobody. I sat there feeling bleak, with a growing kind of grief in me. Once she and I were the most important people in our world. Is this what I’d become to her? Nobody?”

“It was while watching her that I realized that the focus of my life had shifted. For years Dad had been at the center of everything. Now it was as if he had suddenly turned away in that thinking way he has, his hand just touching his mouth, remembering something that needed to be done, and Helen had stepped smiling into his place.”

″‘What’re you doing?’ I asked. ‘Smiling.’ ‘What’re you doing?’ ‘Smiling back.‘”

“How could I explain to you that she wasn’t coming back? So it helped, being able to hate her.”

“Love? I don’t know what love is. It’s a con trick to keep the human race going, that’s all it is.”