“Hanging on in Quiet Desperation is the English Way”
“Sometimes we don't know that it's best to run. Hanging on in desperation seems to be our way.”
“I preferred to hang out with the dead, dying, or desperate books - used we call them, in a way that we'd never call a person, unless we meant it cruelly”
“My desperation was a lot of things, but it would never be quiet.”
“I don't want him to think I'm crazy, because I'm not. Desperate is what I am. Quietly desperate and insatiably curious.”
“As lives go, I'll take the quietly desperate over the radically bipolar.”