“We're going to leave, baby, okay? I'm going to put some of your things into a bag." "Are you taking your pretty things, Mummy?" "You are my pretty things, honey.” LoveMotherStrengthDaughterResilienceParenthoodDomestic ViolenceEscapeDomestic Abuse Book:Overflowing Nothings and Threadbare Everythings Source: Overflowing Nothings and Threadbare Everythings
“Joining her at the table, Liz said, “They’re ever-changing. Swirling, dilating, expanding. To look at, you’d think they hardly move at all, but they actually travel at around a hundred miles an hour.” She took Naomi’s hands in hers again. “We are never stuck, my love. We’re always moving towards something, whether we see it or not. And yes, sometimes we’re forced to bear the greyness of life, but eventually the sun shines through us again.” She smiled, her pink papery cheeks resembling the inside of a rose. “As Maya Angelou once said, ‘Every storm runs out of rain’.” LifeLife PhilosophyCloudsStormDomestic AbuseMaya Angelou Book:Overflowing Nothings and Threadbare Everythings Source: Overflowing Nothings and Threadbare Everythings
“Often finding herself a habitué of Liz’s sacred scanner, Naomi considered her kind friend’s presence in her life both a blessing and a curse: because she always knew without a word being spoken, and because she always knew without a word being spoken.” SpiritualityFriendshipBlessingSacredAngelsDomestic AbuseEthereal Author:Carly Ratcliffe
“When she relayed patients’ stories, she did so with a radical compassion, as if she’d been fitted with a spiritual X-ray machine and saw the intricate details of things that others failed to—an intuition so finely tuned to people’s inner worlds that it was almost prophetic. Often finding herself a habitué of Liz’s sacred scanner, Naomi considered her kind friend’s presence in her life both a blessing and a curse: because she always knew without a word being spoken, and because she always knew without a word being spoken.” SpiritualityBlessingCurseProphetAngelsCelestialDomestic Abuse Author:Carly Ratcliffe
“The underground nightclub was hot, dark, and oppressive, like some tourist netherworld where the sins of Benidorm were exiled.” HolidaySpainSinsDomestic AbuseNightclubBenidorm Author:Carly Ratcliffe
“Naomi figured that newly employed Lin had provided the treats as the rest of her team knew glazed doughnuts were her least favourite. “Glazed doughnuts are the equivalent of sex without foreplay: pointless and bland,” she’d quipped one day, and everyone had laughed and agreed.” LifeFriendshipGriefDomestic Abuse Book:Overflowing Nothings and Threadbare Everythings Source: Overflowing Nothings and Threadbare Everythings