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“Big cities comforted me: the cover, the chaos, the hollow sympathy of the architecture, the Tube lines snaking underground. London could swallow you up, in a good way. There were times when I'd been broken and being subsumed into a city had made me feel part of a whole again.”
― Emma Jane Unsworth, Animals

“These things you treasure, how often they're somebody else's trash.”
― Emma Jane Unsworth, Animals

“Where were my allies? My sad captains? Those moonsick girls I drank with over long winters behind the bowling alley, driven there in cars we didn't know. Those times when we were all strangers and everything was so far away but all we needed to do was run towards it. I had not grown much. I had not reached anywhere. I was still running. When I wasn't lying down.”
― Emma Jane Unsworth, Animals

“It's the worst yet. I'm in TEFL City.'

'TEFL City' because we called those times 'TEFL-pondering mornings', when your only option felt like emigration and teaching.”
― Emma Jane Unsworth, Animals

“Inside me, a chorus line of devils in tutus did a fast little cancan.”
― Emma Jane Unsworth, Animals

“She didn't just change the temperature of rooms, she changed their entire chemical make-up so that anyone in the room would only be aware that the room was an extension of her and she was the thrumming nucleus.”
― Emma Jane Unsworth, Animals

“Was I, as I had long suspected, one part optimism two parts masochism, like all the best cocktails?”
― Emma Jane Unsworth, Animals

“As always when otherwise occupied, I wanted to be writing - a desire that rarely withstood the presence of actual writing time”
― Emma Jane Unsworth, Animals

“When the end comes you know it's real because it isnt remotely cinematic.”
― Emma Jane Unsworth, Animals