Sam Thompson > Quotes

“It was well past midnight, quiet, few people around. All noises had retreated. The night seemed to have its own resonance. At that hour, the city's a gong that was struck at noon and is not yet quite still.”
― Sam Thompson, Communion Town

“Time is strange in certain rooms”
― Sam Thompson, Communion Town

“The interval of two notes could divide your heart and the tug of words against rhythm could mend it: I'd stumbled on the means to say whatever was true in this life. I only wanted the skill to do it.”
― Sam Thompson, Communion Town

“Each morning the pitched window above her bed turned a fresh card from the deck of clear skies”
― Sam Thompson, Communion Town

“Another tower, still whole, was trussed up in scaffolding, and the wind sang through the structure of metal poles, wanting to fling pieces down at you.”
― Sam Thompson