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The Water Cure

Book by Sophie Mackintosh · 10 quotes · Grief, Yearning, Loneliness

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

Loneliness Solitude Yearning

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“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.”

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“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

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“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.”

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“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?”

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“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.”

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“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

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“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

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“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.”

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“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.”

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