“Pain and beauty, our constant bedfellows”
― Nick Bantock, quote from Griffin and Sabine
“Foolish man. You cannot turn me into a phantom because you are frightened. You do not dismiss a muse at whim. - Sabine Strohem”
― Nick Bantock, quote from Griffin and Sabine
“Our house was a temple to The Book. We owned thousands, nay millions of books. They lined the walls, filled the cupboards, and turned the floor into a maze far more complex than Hampton Court’s. Books ruled out lives. They were our demi-gods.”
― Nick Bantock, quote from Griffin and Sabine
“You have told me your history, but speak little fo teh present. Why's that - Sabine Strohem”
― Nick Bantock, quote from Griffin and Sabine
“Sometimes willpower alone cannot make things happen.”
― Nick Bantock, quote from Griffin and Sabine
“Our house was a temple to The Book. We owned thousands, nay millions of books. They lined the walls, filled the cupboards, and turned the floor into a maze far more complex than Hampton Court's. Books ruled out lives. They were our demi-gods.”
― Nick Bantock, quote from Griffin and Sabine
Nick Bantock
Born place: in Stourbridge, The United Kingdom
Born date July 14, 1949
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“Once you let people know anything about what you think, that’s it, you’re dead. Then they’ll be jumping about in your mind, taking things out, holding them up to the light and killing them, yes, killing them, because thoughts are supposed to stay and grow in quiet, dark places, like butterflies in cocoons.”
― Helen Oyeyemi, quote from A Menina Icaro
“She made no point of concealing the truth, for the truth was all she could bear now.”
― James Purdy, quote from Eustace Chisholm and the Works
“Scivolò via come un'onda, solo più bella delle altre.”
― Alessandro Baricco, quote from Oceano mare
“We live in the empiricist’s nightmare: there is a reality far beyond our perception. Our senses have failed us for millennia. Only when we mastered glass and were able to produce clear, polished lenses were we able to gaze through a microscope and finally realize the enormity of our former ignorance.”
― quote from The Forest Unseen: A Year’s Watch in Nature
“She couldn’t remember the last time she had heard his voice, the last time he had spoken her name. His voice still sang to her and stilled her soul, even after all that time”
― Sarah Brianne, quote from Nero
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