A biography for Ruby Elliothasn’t been written yet.
“It wasn't that I stopped caring about life, but that I've stopped being able to care.”
“I'm going to lie down. Please wake me up in a couple of don't.”
“Because the silence is exhausting and isolating in a way it needn't be.”
“Why would I want to take baby steps? Babies are shit at walking - think about it. To move forward I'll be taking jazzy little lizard steps.”
“...this was as if an actual steamroller driven by a crazy grinning idiot had trundled through the door and flattened my entire life into a sad pancake of nothingness.”
“My brain, having been suspended in a state of hyper-vigilance for such a long time, just packed in and said 'No more, your job now is to lie on the sofa incredibly still and just work on evaporating, you useless towel'. And so I did.”