35 Quotes by Emma Bull

Is negative space the space you don’t like, or the space that is not there? And if it’s not there how can you tell?

Do you remember, we used to long to cut our hair, dress in boy’s clothes, and run off to the gipsies? Irresponsible, we were told, and dangerous. No, the real danger is that running away to the gipsies is fairy food. Had we done it, neither of us would have thought of coming back.

I love you like my own sister. Which is why I won’t hesitate to tell you that I don’t believe it.

You’re not bothering me. I’m not doing anything.” Well, I was breathing, and my heart was beating. But the rest of me wasn’t busy.

If the obligations of friendship are constraints, then I am so constrained.

She lifted her head. “It’s easier,” she said, slowly, “to be angry on someone else’s behalf than on my own. And yet I find I have a well of anger in me, that I have been filling for years from my own hurts. If I spill it out in defense of another, I can deny it’s mine.

If I had to, I’d fight it like death itself. But with you, I don’t have to.

Those the brownies will not help, must learn to help themselves.