Sparrow Nights Quotes

“That’s the great illusion of travel, of course, the notion that there’s somewhere to get to. A place where you can finally say, Ah, I’ve arrived. (Of course there is no such place. There’s only a succession of waitings until you go home.)”
― David Gilmour, Sparrow Nights

“So you're here by yourself?"
“Yes."
“Seems like an odd place to come by yourself."
“I needed to get away."
“Woman trouble? That's another of my father's expressions."
“No, actually. I poisoned my neighbor's dogs."
After a moment she said, “How drunk are you?"
“Quite."
“Is that true?"
“What?"
“That you poisoned your neighbor’s dogs."
“I’m afraid it is."
“I have dogs."
“Well, keep them away from me.”
― David Gilmour, Sparrow Nights

“Really, how much of one’s life is made up of these private incidents; how submerged one is. You know, for example, that you will recover from a broken heart, but somehow that piece of information, that factoid, never arrives at the soul or the brain or the nervous system, yes, the nervous system, where it might do some good. But if you know you’re going to be all right, why then do you suffer so? To get there. To get where you know you are going to get to anyway. How pathetic, then, to feel about having arrived. I survived, you say. Yes, but what else would you do? No one dies from love. Come, come.”
― David Gilmour, Sparrow Nights

“By now I was talking to my mother, as the wounded and the dying do, I was begging for comfort, just this last once, this last time. Put your cool hand on my brow as you did when I was little and had a fever and you came in the middle of the night and tucked me in. Sometimes she would take off all of my blankets and then one by one waft them back over me; first the sheet, she'd lift it up again, and it would flutter down, so cool, so clean. How happy children can be in their beds.”
― David Gilmour, Sparrow Nights