21 Quotes by Tessa Hadley

Sometimes these days I almost think I can do without the present. The past is enough for me, it’s enough for my life. Does that sound insane?

I had worried sometimes about making the transition into being grown-up – how did you know when to begin? Now I understood that you stepped out into it, as simply as into a day.

I’m really all right, she would think, carefully, lightly, as she pulled the key from the ignition, trying not to examine the sensation too closely or lose it with any sudden movement, as if it were a thin-filmed shiny bubble poised in her chest.