The Secret Life of William Shakespeare Quotes

“Aye, so: there is love, and there is indulgence, and they may touch sometimes but they're not the same.”
― Jude Morgan, The Secret Life of William Shakespeare

“Life kept kicking you with surprises, at the back of your knees”
― Jude Morgan, The Secret Life of William Shakespeare

“No one can live life for you”
― Jude Morgan, The Secret Life of William Shakespeare

“Now to go on, now to be Ghost. It banishes the other ghosts from his side, for a time: being someone else. Leaving the world, he steps on stage. Now, the real turn into ghosts. Like a snail in reverse, he can only live away from the shell of himself.”
― Jude Morgan, The Secret Life of William Shakespeare

“For there is no such thing as a moment. Call it a second, or an instant, if you like. Now cut it in half – for there is naught in creation so small it cannot be divided. So now the moment is two – so which was the moment of love? Both, part one, part t’other? It can’t be. A moment exists only when we look back at it. All in the heart and mind is flux and process, so it hardly signifies which moment we show in how the lady changes, so long as it convinces.”
― Jude Morgan, The Secret Life of William Shakespeare

“life isn’t like a book, you know: you can never turn back to a page”
― Jude Morgan, The Secret Life of William Shakespeare

“Once you stand anywhere, you turn to stone”
― Jude Morgan, The Secret Life of William Shakespeare

“A man cannot split himself in two, Will.’ He paused. ‘One half will die, sooner or later.”
― Jude Morgan, The Secret Life of William Shakespeare

“But everything that never was is also a thing that might have been – and such a thing has more existence than you or I, for it has a thousand potential existences, and we have only the one we were born to. And of all those possibilities, what could be more fantastical a transformation?”
― Jude Morgan, The Secret Life of William Shakespeare

“You can beat with love”
― Jude Morgan, The Secret Life of William Shakespeare