65 Quotes About Sara-baume

But nowadays I feel guilty that I am granted the immunity of the artistically gifted, having never actually achieved anything to prove myself worthy.

My mother says: 'People who suffer from anxiety are usually those with the most vivid imaginations.

Why is it only now that I can see how many ordinary things are actually grotesque?

I never went downstairs to join my housemates around the television. I cooked dinner later than everyone else and carried the plate up to my bedroom. I knew they must have thought me aloof, or a little bit eccentric, or maybe even unkind, but I didn't care. Once the kitchen door swung shut behind me, I was alone, and so everything was okay.

No matter how far I try to travel from people, people always appear. Either they follow me, or they're already there, and I followed them, unwittingly.

But I have never wanted to be perceived as chatty and bright. I have always wanted to be solemn and mysterious.

My mother likes odd numbers and is suspicious of the even ones. She reads a new book every week and is bewitched by black holes in the universe. She describes herself as an optimist but she worries about everything—worries incessantly—worries on behalf of others when she feels they are not worrying adequately for themselves.And my mother misses her own mother, my grandmother, immensely, who only has a past now; who is only allowed to be as we remember her.

This morning, the sun endures past dawn. I realise that it is August: the summer's last stand.

I decided that if I didn't allow myself to fall asleep, then I wouldn't have to wake up again and despair.