Nathan Filer

“HELLO, my name is your potential. But you can call me impossible.”

— Nathan Filer

“Reading is a bit like hallucinating.”

— Nathan Filer

“This is more than every single grain of sand on every single beach. It is more than all the STARS in the…

— Nathan Filer

“It doesn’t need to be perfect,’ she said at last. ‘It’s already wonderful.”

— Nathan Filer

“Words like guilt and shame and nightmares - the kind of nightmares that drag you from sleep, and leave you reaching for…

— Nathan Filer

“Try and remember that if you can. Hold onto it through everything else that happens in life, through all the things that…

— Nathan Filer

“For those who are interested, the answer is yes, and not just one or two atoms, but probably many many many atoms…

— Nathan Filer

“But one thing I’ve learnt about people, is that they can always surprise you.”

— Nathan Filer

“I guess children believe whatever they want to believe. Perhaps adults do too.”

— Nathan Filer

“Thinking about the past is like digging up graves”

— Nathan Filer

“Some memories refuse to be locked in time or place, they are always present.”

— Nathan Filer

“Some madness doesn't act mad to begin with, sometimes it will knock politely at the door, and when you let it in,…

— Nathan Filer

“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…

— Nathan Filer

“Writing about the past is a way of reliving it, a way of seeing it unfold all over again. We place memories…

— Nathan Filer

“What I did at the memorial, was listen. To the laughter and the tears, and to the quiet stillness that followed.”

— Nathan Filer

“This is my life. I'm nineteen years old, and the only thing I have any control over in my entire world is…

— Nathan Filer

“This is how we piece together our past. We do it like a jigsaw puzzle, where there are missing pieces. But so…

— Nathan Filer

“Her brother has a disease, an illness with the shape and sound of a snake. It slithers through the branches of our…

— Nathan Filer

“But that is what these people do - the Steves of this world - they all try and make something out of…

— Nathan Filer

“Hello, my name is your potential. But you can call me impossible. I am the missed opportunities. I am the expectations you…

— Nathan Filer

“if we meet each other in the street, glance away and look back, we might look the same, feel the same, think…

— Nathan Filer

“Mental illness turns people inwards. That's what I reckon. It keeps up forever trapped by the pain of our own minds, in…

— Nathan Filer

“There is weather and there is climate. If it rains outside, or if you stab a classmate's shoulder with a compass needle,…

— Nathan Filer

“..think back through your own life, to when you were eight or nine years old. See if the memories you have are…

— Nathan Filer

“Writing about the past is a way of reliving it, a way of seeing it unfold all over again. We place memories…

— Nathan Filer

“I decided each name on each spine was the person who the book had been written for, rather than who had written…

— Nathan Filer

“A good thing about talking to someone who is standing behind you is that you can pretend you don't know they're crying,…

— Nathan Filer

“The reallly funny thing is that Steve made that little clicking noise with his tongue, and winked at me, as if to…

— Nathan Filer

“That was sort of our family portrait. It's not the kind of thing you think you would miss. Maybe you don't even…

— Nathan Filer

“I should write about why he left. But there are different versions of truth. If we meet each other in the street,…

— Nathan Filer

“The worst thing about this illness isn’t the things it makes me believe, or what it makes me do. It’s not the…

— Nathan Filer

“He repeated the story he liked to tell us. The one with the small boy who was trying to lift a rock…

— Nathan Filer

“HELLO, my name is your potential. But you can call me impossible. I am the missed opportunities. I am the expectations you…

— Nathan Filer