How to Make Friends with Demons Quotes

“There is no "mid" about it. Life is a crisis from the cradle to the grave.”
― Graham Joyce, How to Make Friends with Demons

“The trouble with forgiveness is that some people don't want to be forgiven.”
― Graham Joyce, How to Make Friends with Demons

“...demons do tend to cluster around the yellowing pages and cracked spines of second hand books.”
― Graham Joyce, How to Make Friends with Demons

“I told her that I'd done things in my youth that had placed me beyond the comfort and shelter of love, and so i had conducted my life in retreat.”
― Graham Joyce, How to Make Friends with Demons

“Because while the world is filled with people who just need to let their demon go, there is another group who need to find themselves one.”
― Graham Joyce, How to Make Friends with Demons

“You let go. It's as simple and as complicated as Antonia had told me. You cry. You come. You sing. You laugh. You scream. You let go. No one needs to hang on to a first edition. Whoever wrote it; even if it was Moses. I looked back up at the sky, blinking at the lustrous beauty of the ascending and departing demons. They formed an alphabet I was beginning to learn to read. They were fire in the sky.”
― Graham Joyce, How to Make Friends with Demons

“No one needs a first edition. Whoever wrote it; even if it was Moses.”
― Graham Joyce, How to Make Friends with Demons

“It also occurred to me that the city was like a vast unconscious mind. You could never know it. The act of cataloguing its chambers of history or its ever-changing geography or its migrations and its waterways and its rumours and its myths would drive you completely insane. All you could do was approach some of the dreams generated by this giant unconscious engine.”
― Graham Joyce, How to Make Friends with Demons