“Her brother has a disease, an illness with the shape and sound of a snake. It slithers through the branches of our family tree. It must have broken her heart, to know that I was next.” — Nathan Filer Copy Share Image
“That was sort of our family portrait. It's not the kind of thing you think you would miss. Maybe you don't even notice it at all those thousands of times, sitting between your mum and dad on the big green… — Nathan Filer Copy Share Image
“It doesn’t need to be perfect,’ she said at last. ‘It’s already wonderful.” — Nathan Filer Copy Share Image
“Words like guilt and shame and nightmares - the kind of nightmares that drag you from sleep, and leave you reaching for something no… — Nathan Filer Copy Share Image
“For those who are interested, the answer is yes, and not just one or two atoms, but probably many many many atoms that were… — Nathan Filer Copy Share Image
“This is more than every single grain of sand on every single beach. It is more than all the STARS in the entire UNIVERSE.” — Nathan Filer Copy Share Image
“Try and remember that if you can. Hold onto it through everything else that happens in life, through all the things that might make… — Nathan Filer Copy Share Image
“Writing about the past is a way of reliving it, a way of seeing it unfold all over again. We place memories on pieces… — Nathan Filer Copy Share Image
“Hello, my name is your potential. But you can call me impossible. I am the missed opportunities. I am the expectations you will never… — Nathan Filer Copy Share Image
“She's known sadness. That's what it is. I only just thought that as I wrote it. She's known sadness, and it has made her… — Nathan Filer Copy Share Image
“Her brother has a disease, an illness with the shape and sound of a snake. It slithers through the branches of our family tree.… — Nathan Filer Copy Share Image
“But one thing I’ve learnt about people, is that they can always surprise you.” — Nathan Filer Copy Share Image
“Mental illness turns people inwards. That's what I reckon. It keeps up forever trapped by the pain of our own minds, in the same… — Nathan Filer Copy Share Image
“Writing about the past is a way of reliving it, a way of seeing it unfold all over again. We place memories on pieces… — Nathan Filer Copy Share Image
“A good thing about talking to someone who is standing behind you is that you can pretend you don't know they're crying, and not… — Nathan Filer Copy Share Image
