#bipreads

"None of it amounted to anything enormous, but the sum of her depression was much greater than its parts, and now she had to live with something that tired her and made her see everything through a greeny-brown gauze. And he learnt that if someone were to ask her where this thing lived... she would say that it was in her throat, because it stopped her from eating, and made her feel as though she were constantly on the verge of tears — when she wasn't actually crying."