Claire-Louise Bennett

‘I’m the only one who sees you correctly,’ he’d say, which I didn’t quite accept though I didn’t say so. It sounds alarming, narcissistic, controlling, but at the same time isn’t that what anyone wants their beloved to believe?

Is there anything in the world more gloriously obliviating than devotion for its own sake?

am somewhere new and strange, somewhere I’ve never been before, somewhere you haven’t seen me – how then is it even possible for you to imagine me? I have removed myself so that I can think of you which I cannot do while you think of me.