Sophie Mackintosh Biography & Quotes

“The trick is forgetting for one moment and then forgetting for another moment and then look, the moments run together like a string of beads, and there is heartbreak in the forgetting of heartbreak, in the forgetting of pain, which returns bright and pulsing regardless of the seconds it has been put aside. Do not leave me here, it tells you. Pain becomes an animal, walking at your side. Pain becomes a home you can carry with you.”

Pain Heartbreak

Book:Cursed Bread

Source: Cursed Bread

“I've been looked at in pity and in fear and I've learned that the only way to really be seen is through desire. To be looked at and found whole. Found alive.”

Desire

Book:Cursed Bread

Source: Cursed Bread

“Pain becomes an animal, walking at your side. Pain becomes a home you can carry with you.”

Pain

Book:Cursed Bread

Source: Cursed Bread

“...I was jealous, not because of him, but because of what it felt like to be seen. To be known.”

Loneliness Solitude Yearning

Book:The Water Cure

Source: The Water Cure

“Every time I think *I am very lonely*, it becomes bleaker and more true, You can think things into being. You can dwell them up from the ground.”

Loneliness

Book:The Water Cure

Source: The Water Cure

“My body feels anchoered to his, pointless without his prescence. Eventually he rises and heads inside, and I follow his lead. He sighs. 'Are you my shadow now?'. I would like that, actually, but I don't tell him so.”

Yearning Infatuation Reliancy

Book:The Water Cure

Source: The Water Cure

“Time without our father becomes stretching, soft. Sugar melted in the pan and drawn into something new before hardening, contracting. There are many days which bleed into each other. The sun in the sky seems closer to us all the time.”

Grief

Book:The Water Cure

Source: The Water Cure

“For a second I remember how your hands looked moving the flint, the flame rising up, and something passes over me. I do not cry. Fuck you, I mouth to the air instead. It makes no reply. Where is your ghost when I need it?”

Grief

Book:The Water Cure

Source: The Water Cure

“I love to cry, though. With King gone, I had forgotten to feel guilty about doing it. There is no one left to notice what I do now.”

Grief

Book:The Water Cure

Source: The Water Cure

“I don't want a book, I don't want the trouble of it, he said. I don't want to get involved, I just want to watch what's going on. I know what's going to happen and then it happens, and I can go outside and feel good about it, I can leave it in the room. A book hangs around, but an image is just a moment.”

Reading Books Images Films

Book:Cursed Bread

Source: Cursed Bread

“Suddenly I am a child again and nobody wants to go near me, nobody can cope with how badly I want to be held, or touched, or listened to, and there is nothing I can ever do about it.”

Solitude Loneliess

Book:The Water Cure

Source: The Water Cure

“I clutch for his knee, some kind of contact I have control over. I want to hold everything in the world in my arms, hold the universe itself.”

Love Yearning Adoration

Book:The Water Cure

Source: The Water Cure

“There is a fluidity to his movements, despite his size, that tells me he has never had to justify his existence, has never had to fold himself into a hidden thing, and I wonder what that must be like, to know that your body is irreproachable.”

Feminism

Book:The Water Cure

Source: The Water Cure

“The wind was taking the sound away. I would never be able to scream loud enough. I launched my voice with all my force and felt unendurably happy. I had been waiting my whole short life to feel that way.”

Childhood

Book:The Water Cure

Source: The Water Cure

Sophie Mackintosh Biography

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