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Writer · British
British writer
“It was hard to understand a little and then walk away.”
“If we can't accept what we don't know, there really is no hope.”
“Like music, said Peg. Even when it was over, it kept living inside you.”
“The sky and the sun are always there. It's the clouds that come and go.”
“Silently he had moved within her until deep inside she opened like a flower.”
“That was why Peg loved the Messiah best of all. Because it showed people they were not alone. No matter about their differences, the music lifted them up and lowered them down, only to raise them e...”
“Jazz was about the spaces between notes. It was about what happened when you listened to the thing inside you. The gaps and the cracks. Because that was where life really happened, when you were br...”
“But maybe it's what the world needs. A little less sense, and a little more faith.”
“All in all, I'd heard people do a lot of things with words. I'd heard them not say what they meant and I'd seen them not do what they said, but I'd never met a person who could speak so simply and ...”
“The fact was, it was safer to stay uninvolved. He was perfectly fine with emotions, so long as they belonged to other people. Oh, he tried relationships after Peg's death, for a while he really tri...”
“There was a patient who sat with her family in a circle around her, all holding hands. Sister Philomena asked if they would like to join her for prayers and they said yes, they would. They closed t...”
“The regrets about all she had let go flooded her. Where had all that enterprise gone? All that energy? Why had she never traveled? Or had more sex when she could? She had bleached and annihilated e...”
“I miss her all the time. I know in my head that she has gone. The only difference is that I am getting used to the pain. It's like discovering a great hole in the ground. To begin with, you forget ...”
“Mrs. Sussex said Byrons loss would grow more bearable. But here was the nub: he didnt want to lose his loss. Loss was all he had left of his mother. If time healed the gap, it would be as if shed n...”
“He saw the reflection of her face in a compact mirror as she painted on her re lips. She did it with such care, he had felt she was trapping something behind the colour.She had touched life, played...”
“Sometimes caring for something already growing is more perilous than planting something new.”
“Sometimes you cannot clear the past completely. You must live alongside your sorrow.”
“The people he met, the places he passed, were all steps in his journey, and he kept a place inside his heart for each of them.”
“If I just keep putting one foot in front of the other, it stands to reason that I'm going to get there.”
“You don't get to a place by constantly moving, even if your journey is only one of sitting still and waiting. Every once in a while you have to stop in your tracks and admire the view, a small clou...”
“It was a perfect spring day. The air was sweet and gentle and the sky stretched high, an intense blue. Harold was certain that the last time he had peered through the net drapes of Fossebridge Road...”
“Jim looks out the car window with his nose pressed to the glass. Sometimes he pretends to be asleep. Not because he is tired, but because he needs to be quiet.”
