Stephen

“I will clamber through the Clouds and exist. I will get such an accumulation of stupendous recollections that as I walk through the suburbs of London, I may not see them. Keats, in a letter to Robert Haydon, April 1818”
― David Nicholls, You Are Here

“No one in the English department was jumping on the desks, and the mathematicians could preach all they wanted about the beauty of numbers: it was all so much Sudoku. And yet somehow, somewhere, the geography joke had come to be and now it was up to Mr Bradshaw, Michael, to defy those expectations and inspire. He led the way, Mrs Fraser – Cleo – herding the stragglers, and down in the valley he spoke of alluvial fans.”
― David Nicholls, You Are Here

“Twenty-one years can be condensed to very few words. Is that a good thing or a bad one? It’s just the way it is.”
― Rachel Joyce, The Music Shop

“I loved the smell of incense and cedar, and the warm feeling that comes from being in a record store with hardwood floors, wooden walls, and records sitting in wooden crates.”
― Ian Shane, Postgraduate