Original Bliss Quotes

“You can look at the words on this paper and, because they are the ones I am used to choosing, they will show you the shape of me. I am here to be read in the way you might read the impression of my weight in a bed after a still night, a restless night, a night not alone.”
― A. L. Kennedy, Original Bliss

“It was lovely being out of his mind, very roomy. Now he could go anywhere he liked.”
― A.L. Kennedy, Original Bliss

“He could feel himself gladly abandoning sanity.”
― A.L. Kennedy, Original Bliss

“She gathered a stiff breath and forced out something she hoped might be what she believed she thought, or hoped she thought, or hoped he thought, or just something someone might have thought at some time when they were trying to make sense of something.”
― A.L. Kennedy, Original Bliss

“Some Americans simply had too many teeth, or too good, or too big - they were too obviously a later and better version of what the human being could be. They seemed almost dangerously well-prepared for feeding.”
― A.L. Kennedy, Original Bliss