On Eden Street Quotes

“But experience alters us, whatever we do – the decisions we take and the actions we carry out change us minute by minute, as each drop of rain alters the course of a river and every frost re-shapes a mountainside.”
― Peter Grainger, On Eden Street

“And then I realised you can’t even have anarchy without rules. You can’t have a glass of wine without the glass. You can’t play chess without a board that has sixty-four squares. Some things are fundamental.”
― Peter Grainger, On Eden Street

“She said, ‘Bit posh for a copper, ain’t you?’ ‘They’re desperate. They’ll take anyone these days,’ and she gave him the twist of a smile.”
― Peter Grainger, On Eden Street

“In jazz, the tune is still there. If you strip out everything else, it’s always there. But it’s what you do in between and around those notes that matters. The departures, the near-misses, the almost-played-it-but-not-quite-yets, the sense of relief when the remembered phrase reappears but then it’s gone again, like a figure in a dream…”
― Peter Grainger, On Eden Street