Dance on My Grave Quotes

“... the perfect example of Robinson's law. This states that human idiocy multiplies in compound ratio to the number of people gathered together in one place for a common purpose.”
― Aidan Chambers, Dance on My Grave

“Love, being in love, isn’t a constant thing. It doesn’t always flow at the same strength. It’s not always like a river in flood. It’s more like the sea. It has tides, it ebbs and flows. The thing is, when love is real, whether it’s ebbing or flowing, it’s always there, it never goes away. And that’s the only proof you can have that it is real, and not just a crush or an infatuation or a passing fancy.”
― Aidan Chambers, Dance on My Grave

“Ci siamo spogliati nel palazzo degli specchi. Abbiamo ispezionato con tenerezza le ferite l'uno dell'altro. La mia faccia gonfia e il labbro rotto. Le abrasioni di Barry sui fianchi e sulle cosce e le escoriazioni sulle mani e le ginocchia, dovute allo sfregamento sul marciapiede. Nient'altro.
E nessun'altra scusa per toccare, seguire e accarezzare i contorni dei nostri corpi per la prima volta.”
― Aidan Chambers, Dance on My Grave

“Not being any kind of hero, I admit myself glad that evening to get inside the cinema and sit down in its dark cocoon. Public privacy. Reality-with-consequences exchanged for reality-without-consequences for the price of a ticket. A womb with a quadrophonic heartbeat and an image of the world-to-come moving tantalizingly on the membrane of the uterus.
My embryo mate twinned beside me, shoulder, arm, thigh and knee making us Siamese if you please. Which was close enough for now. Enough to rest on. Suspended animation. A still from coming attractions.”
― Aidan Chambers, Dance on My Grave

“Not being any kind of hero, I admit myself glad that evening to get inside the cinema and sit down in its dark cocoon. Public privacy. Reality-with-consequences exchanged for reality-without-consequences for the price of a ticket. A womb with a quadrophonic heartbeat and an image of the world-to-come moving tantalizingly on the membrane of the uterus.
My embryo mate twinned beside me, shoulder, arm, thigh and knee making us Siamese if you please. Which was close enoigh for now. Enough to rest on. Suspended animation. A still from coming attractions.”
― Aidan Chambers, Dance on My Grave