13 Quotes by Victoria Clayton

It does not matter how sternly you tell yourself that the crippling paranoia of the small hours of the night is due solely to body chemistry. You still feel absolutely miserable.

But with Freddy I seemed to have the best sort of conversations, where our talk became exploratory and would lead on to new ideas, like thinking aloud, and in the process of clarifying improvisatory theories I always made useful discoveries about what I thought and felt.

The search for identity in one’s youth is a journey of alternate boredom and agony interrupted by flash of joy.

It is frightening to feel that all your happiness is bound up to another person. That without them you don’t – you don’t particularly want to live’.