This Thing of Darkness Quotes

“People never really reinvent themselves. They migrate back to whatever they truly were.”
― Harry Bingham, This Thing of Darkness

“I avoid doing things on impulse, because I’ve learned that my feelings are too unreliable to trust.”
― Harry Bingham, This Thing of Darkness

“and I can make him smile. And smiles are precious.”
― Harry Bingham, This Thing of Darkness

“Mike has a theory that most calls are boring, so he often leaves his phone where he can’t hear it.”
― Harry Bingham, This Thing of Darkness

“The harder you push at an unreliable memory, the less reliable it”
― Harry Bingham, This Thing of Darkness

“living in the same house, married to the same woman, doing the same things in the same way until arthritis stiffened him, cataracts dimmed him, muscles failed and cancers ate him.”
― Harry Bingham, This Thing of Darkness

“wish I was a better human. I wish we had food for the hungry and harmony between nations.”
― Harry Bingham, This Thing of Darkness

“One of those thick red carpets that seems to trap time. I have one”
― Harry Bingham, This Thing of Darkness

“Trout-coloured water breaking over rocks.”
― Harry Bingham, This Thing of Darkness

“Jackson thumps the desk again. Partly a 'need to think about this' gesture. Partly a 'good work, Constable' one. Mostly though, he's just a big Welshman and their hormones go funny unless they hit something now and again.”
― Harry Bingham, This Thing of Darkness

“Jackson uses the silence to give me a bunch of stapled sheets. The title page says: Torture Survivors' Handbook. Information on Support and Resources for Torture Survivors in the UK.

"This thing is mostly aimed at people coming here from abroad. But you should read it. And use it."

I hold the book in my hands.

I say, "They got the apostrophe in the right place. That's good.”
― Harry Bingham, This Thing of Darkness

“To have your face rolled down over your eyes and not even to notice your blindness. That's dead, I think, as dead as it's possible to be.”
― harry bingham, This Thing of Darkness

“no-obligation”
― Harry Bingham, This Thing of Darkness

“You have the power . . . to consider time everlasting, to think of the swift change in the parts of each thing, of how brief is the span from birth until dissolution, and how the void before birth and the void beyond dissolution are equally infinite.”
― Harry Bingham, This Thing of Darkness