“You have to love dancing to stick to it. It gives you nothing back, no manuscripts to store away, no paintings to show on walls and maybe hang in museums, no poems to be printed and sold, nothing but that single fleeting moment when you feel alive.” - Choreographer, Merce Cunningham
With Shakespeare’s characters, it is always the heart that lights the fire, that sparks the brain, that makes them speak. - Shakespeare on Toast by Ben Crystal
“Claire, I want to tell you, again, I love you. Our love has been the thread through the labyrinth, the net under the high-wire walker. The only real thing in this strange life of mine that I could ever trust. Tonight I feel that my love for you has more density in this world than I do, myself: as though it could linger on after me and surround you, keep you, hold you.” – Time Traveller’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
The Perfectionist pushed Tom into her bed. She took off his shirt. She took off his shoes. And his socks. She took off his pants. She took off his trousers. With most guys, the Perfectionist would stop there. She didn’t. She was still feeling reckless. She took off his skin. She took off his nervous system. She lifted up his ribcage. The heart beat in her hands. And there, underneath it, she found a jewelled golden box. She opened it. Inside, she found his hopes, his dreams, his fears. She was surprised to find them there and surprised at how beautiful they were. At that exact moment, the Perfectionist fell in love with Tom. – All My Friends are Superheroes by Andrew Kaufman
“You make the idea of living forever seem like such an attractive prospect. But its no good, if you’re not around to share it.” Andy Tandy on my occassional smoking. 18th April 2009
“Whatever God is, I’m pretty sure its in how we are there for each other.” – Don Eppes, Numb3rs
I think reading a book is like other sensory experiences- fixed in your memory to a particular time and place. — Mark Cobbold on being asked what his favourite book was. 29th June 2009
Light thinks it travels faster than anything. But its wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds that darkness has always got there first. – Spencer Reid in ‘Criminal Minds’ quoting Terry Pratchett
You cant get out of everything just by being pretty and sexy. Although it will get you out of your clothes! — Andy Tandy to me. 18th April 2009
Monsters are real. Ghosts are real. They live inside us. And, sometimes they win. — Stephen King