66 quotes found
Author · British · 1964
British author (born 1964)
“Knowledge is currency here....”
“A named thing is a tamed thing.”
“I'd rather be a freak than a clone.”
“Don't worry so much about 'not supposed to'.”
“Happiness. Simple as a glass of chocolate or tortuous as the heart. Bitter. Sweet. Alive.”
“I believe that being happy is the only important thing. Happiness. Simple as a glass of chocolate or torturous as the heart. Bitter. Sweet. Alive.”
“A man may plant a tree for a number of reasons. Perhaps he likes trees. Perhaps he wants shelter. Or perhaps he knows that someday he may need the firewood.”
“No point carrying useless ballast. It won't change a thing.”
“The dead know everything but they don't give a damn.”
“I could do with a bit more excess. From now on I'm going to be immoderate--and volatile--I shall enjoy loud music and lurid poetry. I shall be rampant.”
“Your wolf is eating that man. I thought you should know.”
“Children are knives, my mother once said. They dont mean to, but they cut. And yet we cling to them, dont we, we clasp them until the blood flows.”
“Gods? Don't let that impress you. Anyone can be a god if they have enough worshippers. You don't even have to have powers anymore. In my time I've seen theatre gods, gladiator gods, even storytelle...”
“I'm only keeping in touch with you for the sake of the children. Way to look after our son, by the way. I let you have him for the weekend and before I know it he's chained underground, awaiting La...”
“Well, that's history for you, folks. Unfair, untrue and for the most part written by folk who weren't even there.”
“And yet, it was still a performance. Odin and I both knew it. It was a kind of play, a dream of how things might have been if he and I had been capable of trusting each other for a change. And so w...”
“A black cat crossed my path, and I stopped to dance around it widdershins and to sing the ”
“We didnt see anyone that day. We had no expectations. Everything was spontaneous. There wasnt a single moment of stress. We laughed like crazy all afternoon though I couldnt tell you what about. A...”
“There was something about total loyalty, uncritical devotion, endless patience, perpetual forgiveness and the general inability to believe that a loved one could ever do anything wrong that, frankl...”
“People grieve in different ways, some silently, some in anger, some in spite. Rarely does grief bring out the best in people, despite what local historians like to tell you.”
“The advantage of travel is that after a while you begin to realize that wherever you go, most people aren't really all that much different.”
“For a time, then, we stay. For a time. Till the changes.”
“The past is an obdurate stranger that puts as many marks on us as we attempt to impose on it.”
