The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep

by H.G. Parry

What I mean is, phrases are important. That’s what I’m trying to teach my poetry students at the moment. Words are chosen very carefully. Stories are built from words.”

“This is reality, not story. Reality is built from facts.”

There is nothing more deceptive than an o...

Words on paper are quiet, and porous; in the right mood, I sink down between the gaps in the letters and they close over my head.

And it’s hard, when your brain has an idea, to force it to let it go.

Nothing stays hidden. Secrets are always found out, and the world is unforgiving.”

“That’s how all secrets are revealed, in the end. Either someone else betrays us, or we betray ourselves.”

“I think everyone has something to hide.

Pushing the boundaries of reality shouldn’t be easy, or there’s something wrong.

You can be wrong without being either immoral or stupid,

Questions are dangerous, and their answers are more dangerous yet.

Kind people don’t make things happen. They try to prevent bad things from happening, and they fail, and they live in fear of that failure. So do those under their protection.

I don’t care what everyone says, damaging books is worse than damaging people. People heal up. Books never do. The marks always show.