17 Quotes by Joanna Walsh

We long for frost, we who have waited so long for summer.

When she becomes powerful, it is not a power she will know what to do with.

The time spent cleaning up outweighs the time consuming.

But there is not much time to regret other people, their actions or inactions. Isn’t drowning itself enough for one day? Here.

Always you wish to be in two places at the same time, always you want to be connected.

Despite everything, we are good people, who can hardly live in this world that continues almost entirely at our expese. The best thing is to keep on moving arms and legs, and watch the waves, almost as though moving forward. In this way, despair turns quickly over to happiness, and back to despair again. And, if you reach the beach, walk back across it like everything is fine, toward your family who would not like to see the abyss you have just swum over.

All holidays are nightmares: you save up all year and what do you find at the other end but someone else’s house with all their own particular domestic nasties?

Vertigo is the sense that if I fall I will fall not toward the earth but into space. I sense no anchorage. I will pitch forward, outward and upward.