Pressure creates diamonds but also cracks ice and bursts blood vessels.
Susan Sontag ‘where the stress falls.’
The bridge of hesitation
If you are not at the table you are on the menu
The empathic position is not, ‘I know how you feel’, but rather, ‘I don’t know how you feel.’
Words need to be weighed carefully, like currency. Often ‘small change’ is the most valuable and helpful, when given at the right moment.
Poetry is words touching each other
Asking whether the monarchy should be abolished is akin to whether of not we should dispense with pandas. Hilary Mantel said: “some people find them endearing; some pity then for their precarious situation; everyone stares at them, and however airy the enclosure, it’s still a cage.”
She was a bone setter; he made mirrors