“For a second I felt content, an emotion so unfamiliar it took me a moment to identify it.” — Kylie Ladd Emotion Copy Share Image
“If I let myself think of it the pain and anger were still fresh, adrenalin racing down my limbs to pool, hot… — Kylie Ladd Anger Copy Share Image
“Maybe it was because the friendship had been forced on us, or because, with her careful grooming and precise sentences, Joan always… — Kylie Ladd Friendship Copy Share Image
“I was out of control, manic, less myself than I’d ever been. Like Eve must have felt after the fall, I reflected… — Kylie Ladd Eden Copy Share Image
“That’s the thing about falling. It doesn’t go on indefinitely, and it rarely ends well . . . plunge, plummet, pain. Even… — Kylie Ladd Fall Copy Share Image
“Nothing mattered, except whether the transplant took. God, he wanted it to work. He wanted to heal Skye, make her well again,… — Kylie Ladd Copy Share Image
“The best way to describe it is that it was like eating Vegemite toast again after weeks of rich foreign food and… — Kylie Ladd Food Copy Share Image
“Tired, yes, but it was more than that. Watching everything unfold had lurched me from anger to disgust and finally sorrow, had… — Kylie Ladd Love Copy Share Image
“At first I enjoyed it. A fall is a surrender; you can’t help it, you didn’t plan it. Maybe you could have… — kylie ladd Fall Copy Share Image
“I had learnt from my work: that all pain is erased in the passage of time. Not just by, but in. In… — Kylie Ladd Pain Copy Share Image
“She was never malicious, but she was careless. Kate is the sort of person who is always forgetting where they put their… — Kylie Ladd Friendship Copy Share Image
“I literally felt gutted, as if someone had hollowed me out, removed my core. Patients in the final stage of dementia revert… — Kylie Ladd Literally Felt Copy Share Image
“Chemistry is an overused word. I prefer ‘fit’, that indefinable sensation when a man takes your arm as you move through a… — Kylie Ladd Copy Share Image
“Skye shook her head at Jess, who kept nudging the ball towards her. She was too tired to keep throwing. She needed… — Kylie Ladd Grief Copy Share Image
“There’s an old joke about a man who buys a cookbook for his wife and a negligee for his mistress. Somehow, though,… — Kylie Ladd Lingerie Copy Share Image
“The thing is, I fell in love with Luke, not Cary. Fell for the sheen and the sweat, the adrenalin of the… — Kylie Ladd Blue sky Copy Share Image
“Oh, I already loved my husband, of course, but this was different. That had been a decision; this was out of my… — Kylie Ladd Crazy love Copy Share Image
“I’m not proud of any of this, truly I’m not. Looking back I can’t believe how I acted, how each deceit flowed… — Kylie Ladd Copy Share Image
“Maybe a better illustration would be a migraine. One moment you’re well, the next you’re in so much pain you can’t open… — Kylie Ladd Open eyes Copy Share Image
