“It always amazes me how it is so easy to appear one way to the people around you but to live inside as someone else entirely.”
―
K.L. Slater,
Safe With Me
“You could say it feels a bit like dressing up in the brightest party clothes so nobody sees how low and lost you feel underneath. You'd be surprised how easy it is to hide your true feelings with a smile and a kind word.” ― K.L. Slater, Safe With Me
“You don't always know how you're going to react to a sudden tragedy breaking your life into little pieces.” ― K.L. Slater, Blink
“Why is that everyone can forget about physical ailments quite easily, but when it comes to mental illness, it sticks to you like glue for the rest of your life?” ― K.L. Slater, The Apartment
“The pork is in the oven with the foil off now, and a quick satisfying peek confirms that the crackling will be done to perfection. Just how Ben likes it. The apple crumble, with my own special oaty topping, sits on the side, and I have a big carton of Marks and Spencer’s vanilla custard stowed away in the fridge. I find nobody notices a little cheat, so long as it’s just here and there. The trick is not to overdo it.” ― K.L. Slater, Liar
“Sit down, Mum,’ Ben says kindly when he’s finished mopping up the cream. I look down and see that the large area of polished wood is now dull and smeared, and although he’s done his best, the cream has surreptitiously seeped in between the boards where it might never be reached. ‘Mum?” ― K.L. Slater, Liar
“Just give yourself permission to feel it all, Jenny. The sadness, the anger, the heartbreak… let it come. All your feelings are valid. You don’t have to choose between them.” ― K.L. Slater, The Girlfriend
“If hope is like the softest snow, then the dread that replaces it is the razor-sharp ice that will slash and pare your very soul to ribbons” ― K.L. Slater, Blink
“All the dark stuff nobody’s saying is stacking up in the silences between our words. It lives and breathes in the space around us where we can’t touch it, see it, or escape it.” ― K.L. Slater, Finding Grace
“pick Maddy and Josh up from Mum’s house no later than six each day, and we’re always home around ten minutes later. I thought that was enough to qualify me as a good mother, a parent who is there for her children. Yet I feel a niggle deep down that tells me he’s right. Once I get through the door each evening, I simply set my laptop up on the kitchen counter and carry on working. I often cook the children’s tea around updating the InsideOut4Kids website. The reality is, I’m there… but I’m not really there. Not all of me. For the first time, I consider the echoes of my own childhood, when Mum spent so much time in her bedroom. I can’t remember the last time we all sat down and ate together, or watched TV as a family. We often stay in different rooms until it’s time for bed. And the outings to the park or the cinema we used to plan and enjoy at weekends? I seriously can’t remember the last time we did that. I thought I was being Superwoman, and it turns out I’m struggling to tick all the boxes like any other mere mortal. The realisation renders me speechless, and it doesn’t take Tom long to” ― K.L. Slater, The Silent Ones
“This was a wretched place that most people would never get to see. Lucky them. Hope didn't feel that strong here, but fear loomed large” ― K.L. Slater, The Evidence
“near” ― K.L. Slater, The Girl She Wanted
“let you carry on putting our daughter in danger” ― K.L. Slater, The Girl She Wanted
“clipping” ― K.L. Slater, Liar
“and I strain to” ― K.L. Slater, Blink
“Cole learned to shrug his shoulders each time and walk away with a smile on his face when inside, he crumbled a little more.” ― K.L. Slater, The Girlfriend
“do about it.” ― K.L. Slater, Blink
“Karma has no menu. You get served what you deserve” ― K.L. Slater, The Marriage
“happened to help her make sense of it. ‘It seems” ― K.L. Slater, The Apartment
“You could say it feels a bit like dressing up in the brightest party clothes so nobody sees how low and lost you feel underneath. You'd be surprised how easy it is to hide your true feelings with a smile and a kind word.” ― K.L. Slater, Safe With Me
“You don't always know how you're going to react to a sudden tragedy breaking your life into little pieces.” ― K.L. Slater, Blink
“Why is that everyone can forget about physical ailments quite easily, but when it comes to mental illness, it sticks to you like glue for the rest of your life?” ― K.L. Slater, The Apartment
“The pork is in the oven with the foil off now, and a quick satisfying peek confirms that the crackling will be done to perfection. Just how Ben likes it. The apple crumble, with my own special oaty topping, sits on the side, and I have a big carton of Marks and Spencer’s vanilla custard stowed away in the fridge. I find nobody notices a little cheat, so long as it’s just here and there. The trick is not to overdo it.” ― K.L. Slater, Liar
“Sit down, Mum,’ Ben says kindly when he’s finished mopping up the cream. I look down and see that the large area of polished wood is now dull and smeared, and although he’s done his best, the cream has surreptitiously seeped in between the boards where it might never be reached. ‘Mum?” ― K.L. Slater, Liar
“Just give yourself permission to feel it all, Jenny. The sadness, the anger, the heartbreak… let it come. All your feelings are valid. You don’t have to choose between them.” ― K.L. Slater, The Girlfriend
“If hope is like the softest snow, then the dread that replaces it is the razor-sharp ice that will slash and pare your very soul to ribbons” ― K.L. Slater, Blink
“All the dark stuff nobody’s saying is stacking up in the silences between our words. It lives and breathes in the space around us where we can’t touch it, see it, or escape it.” ― K.L. Slater, Finding Grace
“pick Maddy and Josh up from Mum’s house no later than six each day, and we’re always home around ten minutes later. I thought that was enough to qualify me as a good mother, a parent who is there for her children. Yet I feel a niggle deep down that tells me he’s right. Once I get through the door each evening, I simply set my laptop up on the kitchen counter and carry on working. I often cook the children’s tea around updating the InsideOut4Kids website. The reality is, I’m there… but I’m not really there. Not all of me. For the first time, I consider the echoes of my own childhood, when Mum spent so much time in her bedroom. I can’t remember the last time we all sat down and ate together, or watched TV as a family. We often stay in different rooms until it’s time for bed. And the outings to the park or the cinema we used to plan and enjoy at weekends? I seriously can’t remember the last time we did that. I thought I was being Superwoman, and it turns out I’m struggling to tick all the boxes like any other mere mortal. The realisation renders me speechless, and it doesn’t take Tom long to” ― K.L. Slater, The Silent Ones
“This was a wretched place that most people would never get to see. Lucky them. Hope didn't feel that strong here, but fear loomed large” ― K.L. Slater, The Evidence
“near” ― K.L. Slater, The Girl She Wanted
“let you carry on putting our daughter in danger” ― K.L. Slater, The Girl She Wanted
“clipping” ― K.L. Slater, Liar
“and I strain to” ― K.L. Slater, Blink
“Cole learned to shrug his shoulders each time and walk away with a smile on his face when inside, he crumbled a little more.” ― K.L. Slater, The Girlfriend
“do about it.” ― K.L. Slater, Blink
“Karma has no menu. You get served what you deserve” ― K.L. Slater, The Marriage
“happened to help her make sense of it. ‘It seems” ― K.L. Slater, The Apartment
