Claire-Louise Bennett

From Checkout 19

“Because as it turns out the inside of my thighs were trembling terribly. If you don’t do much at the time it all goes on afterwards. Of course you join in, of course there is no not doing very much, you can’t switch your body off–how did I not know that? Will I eat something? Cheese on toast maybe? Do you feel awful? Is this terrible? Are you going to cry? Well are you? Or are you going to make yourself cry because you feel you should cry? Was it really awful or was it merely unpleasant? Make up your mind now and stick to it–are you going to get into a state about this or not? And then I get irritated with thinking about it…”