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He recently found a black and white picture of his mother and father, taken long before he was born, grinning arm in arm while deep below ground exploring an old tin mine. They made each other adventurous, Roger tells me, a quality he not
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“You can have a hangover from other things than alcohol. I had one from women. Women made me sick.”
― Philip Marlowe Complete Collection
― Philip Marlowe Complete Collection
“I want to hear you wound my lovely language with your rough barbarian tongue.”
― The Wise Man's Fear
― The Wise Man's Fear
“We all have an idealised picture of the garden that we have carried around in our heads from the moment it became ours and which, I guess, is never the same as the growing reality. Over the years that the garden is coming into being that image carries you forward and inspires you, but when things reach maturity, the cold light of reality can be harsh.”
― My Roots: A Decade in the Garden
― My Roots: A Decade in the Garden
“But sometimes the best help a person can find is helping someone else.”
― The Wise Man's Fear
― The Wise Man's Fear
“Then I played the song that hides in the center of me. That wordless music that moves through the secret places in my heart. I played it carefully, strumming it slow and low into the dark stillness of the night. I would like to say it is a happy song, that it is sweet and bright, but it is not.”
― The Wise Man's Fear
― The Wise Man's Fear
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