Things I Know to be True (NHB Modern Plays)
72 printed pages
- Copyright owner
- Bookwire
- Original publication
- 2016
- Publication year
- 2016
- Publisher
- Nick Hern Books
Impressions
- gabbireeseshared an impression6 years ago
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Quotes
- ameliastanimeroshas quoted7 years ago
you. I know that things can’t remain the same no matter how much you want them to. I know that people aren’t perfect. Even the people you love. Especially the people you love. And I know that love is not enough to save them.
I know what grief tastes like. It’s bitter. I know what it sounds like. It’s loud. And I know that on the day my mother died my childhood finally ended.
I know that summer turns to autumn and that autumn becomes winter and that winter turns to spring and spring back to summer. And it goes on.
Life.
It goes on. - ameliastanimeroshas quoted7 years agoROSIE. I hang up. I get out of the car. I can hardly breathe. I’m standing on the side of the highway. I don’t know whether to turn back or to keep going. I’m somewhere between who I was and who I’m going to be. I want my dad. I want my sisters and brother. I want my mum. I want my mum. But I can’t think of her, of them, not now, because if I do my chest will explode. I feel like I’m literally going to fall to pieces. That my arms are going to drop off and then my legs and my head. And so to stop myself coming apart I make a list of all the things I know to be true.
I know that having your heart broken by a boy from Spain won’t be the worst thing that happens to - ameliastanimeroshas quoted7 years agowondered if she had been too soft with him and let him get away with things that she wouldn’t have stood for from the others.
She thought about love and how sometimes you could give too much and sometimes you couldn’t give enough and that knowing the right place in-between wasn’t easy. And she thought about Bob. He’ll still be asleep. She looked forward to crawling into bed beside him. She loved the warmth of him in the morning.
She was thinking of all this when her eyes closed, just for a moment. She veered off the inside lane and hit the concrete divider before flipping the car. She was crushed on impact. She was dead on arrival at the hospital where she worked.
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