Quotes by : Sara Baume

I decided that if I didn't allow myself to fall asleep, then I wouldn't have to wake up again and despair.....

It happens so seldom; I must catch and keep this slender yearning, a rare beetle in a jam-jar trap. But....

It's too warm for red wine; now I mix gin and tonics instead. I find they make the ordinary sensation....

. . . buzzed up by the knowledge that none of my family knew where I was, who I was with nor when I'd....

And I felt like such a failure. I thought: I can't even do mental illness properly.

This morning, I see the lead in my glass tumbler. A slim, bright glint, a silverfish. I feel it collecting....

So it's as if,' I say, 'I'm okay in my own bones, but I know that my bones aren't living up to other....

It’s time to accept that I am average, and to stop making this acceptance of my averageness into a....

People don't like it when you say real things.

And out the bus window, here is my dead world come true, my whole dead world in motion.