3 Quotes by Jane Alison

When you're sixteen or seventeen meaning can be anywhere. A drop of rain running down the window is a symbol, a song comes on the radio just when you longed for it, you have the same initials as the boy for whom you're sick, secret messages await you in poems. It's like living in a net of logic, of systems of words and significance.

This stream of watching made what was watched wanted.

Just as there can be a hole in these narratives, a memoir can be as much about what's forgotten as what's remembered.