“He repeated the story he liked to tell us. The one with the small boy who was trying to lift a rock in his garden, and the boy’s dad was watching him heave and sweat and struggle, but get nowhere.… — 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
