#janice galloway

[deathcabforme]

"For now, at least, she has nothing to do but wait."

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This is such a gorgeous book!

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[quote-junkie]

No matter how often I think I can't stand it anymore, I always do. There is no alternative. I don't fall, I don't foam at the mouth, faint, collapse or die. It's the same for all of us. You can't get out of the inside of your own head. Something keeps you going. Something always does.

Janice Galloway

-- “The Trick is to Keep Breathing”

[aquarium-drinker]

Other people. Other people interest me. How they manage. There are several possibilities. 1. They are just as confused as me but they aren't letting on. 2. They don't know they don't know what the point is. 3. They don't understand they don't know what the point is. 4. They don't mind they don't know what the point is. 5. They don't even know there are any questions.

Janice Galloway, The Trick Is To Keep Breathing

[celebratingamazingwomen]

Janice Galloway (b. 1955) is a Scottish novelist and poet, best known for her 1989 work The Trick is to Keep Breathing.

She published three novels, including one based on the life of Clara Schumann, four collections of short stories and a poetry anthology. She has won numerous prizes, such as the E.M. Forster Award, the Creative Scotland Award and Saltire Book of the Year.

[unessasi]

“There are split seconds in the morning between waking and sleep when you know nothing. Not just things missing like where or who you are, but nothing. The fact of being alive has no substance. No awareness of skin and bone, the trap inside the skull. For these split seconds you hover in the sky like Icarus. Then you remember.”

Janice Galloway

[the-final-sentence]

Watch the lights.

Janice Galloway, from The Trick is to Keep Breathing

[thecourageofobscurity]

I want to be held. / to be found.

Janice Galloway, The Trick is to Keep Breathing

[thecourageofobscurity]

Sometimes all that happens is passing time.

Janice Galloway, The Trick is to Keep Breathing