I think I have become a better writer since having children. It improves creativity, particularly because once you have children it makes you realise the story isn’t about you. — Louise Doughty Copy Share Image
“Before my daughter was lost to me, I might have attributed his apparent stillness and control to a lack of feeling, but now I know, to my cost, that appearing unfeeling is the price we sometimes pay for being able… — Louise Doughty Copy Share Image
I think I have become a better writer since having children. It improves creativity, particularly because once you have children it makes you realise… — Louise Doughty Copy Share Image
“We discovered that safety and security are commodities you can sell in return for excitement but you can never buy them back.” — Louise Doughty Copy Share Image
“You should remind yourself that what you love is mortal, that what you love is not your own. It is granted to you the… — Louise Doughty Copy Share Image
“Love built on pain-the kind that lasts: whatever you love can be taken away from us at any moment but the loss of what… — Louise Doughty Copy Share Image
It's the very awfulness of [murder] that makes reading about it feel so cozy. — Louise Doughty Copy Share Image
Writing gets easier once you know your allies and banish your enemies. — Louise Doughty Copy Share Image
“We are taught we can redeem them, she said to me once. We are taught it as soon as we can read. We can… — Louise Doughty Copy Share Image
Love built on pain-the kind that lasts: whatever you love can be taken away from us at any moment but the loss of what… — Louise Doughty Copy Share Image
“Before my daughter was lost to me, I might have attributed his apparent stillness and control to a lack of feeling, but now I… — Louise Doughty Copy Share Image
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