Rachel Ward, Numbers
9 quotes
"People just don't seem to get me. Don't understand that I need my space. Always telling me what to do. They think rules and routines and clean hands and your p's and q's will make everything all right. They haven't got a clue."
"We all know we're one day closer to the end when we wake up in the morning. We just kid ourselves that it's not happening."
"However cozy things seemed, the facts of life were the same. You couldn't escape death: It would get us all in the end."
"How easy to be a bird or an animal, living from day to day, unaware you're alive, unaware that one day you will die."
"It's okay to talk about it. Death is so normal, I don't know why everyone gets so hung up about it. We all have to deal with it. Most people that you talk to have lost someone, but nobody talks about it."
"And then, a strangely comforting thought trickled through me—I had nothing, so I could do anything now. Anything I wanted. I had nothing left to lose."
"Life's not that simple. Not so easy to move on when the anger you've got is what keeps you going."
"I don't understand, Jem. I don't understand why you'd leave me. Why would you that?"
"I can't stand men crying. It's wrong, isn't it? Their faces aren't made for it, they kind of crumple; it's painful to watch."