Songs for Your Mother Quotes

“There has to be something more to it, and I think it is something like the unknowable human connection, the magic of the universe, which brings people together and makes life what it is.”
― Gordon MacMillan, Songs for Your Mother

“The thing is, I worry about not going, about forgetting Will and about leaving him behind,”
― Gordon MacMillan, Songs for Your Mother

“TSP is worried about forgetting Will as if the pain and the loss are now the only things that connect her to the person that she loved. Once those are gone, what do you have left other than fond feelings and good memories?”
― Gordon MacMillan, Songs for Your Mother

“sometimes no matter how old you are you just want your mother.”
― Gordon MacMillan, Songs for Your Mother

“I always thought that’s what fate wants us to do, right? To tempt it every now and again to see what happens, to check we’re paying attention, and that we’re fighting hard enough for all the things that we want,”
― Gordon MacMillan, Songs for Your Mother

“Sobriety and daylight bring a new perspective that often feels like the battle between imagination and reality. It’s the space between those two forces, and the balancing of them, where a life of possibility exists.”
― Gordon MacMillan, Songs for Your Mother

“We’re both wondering about this evening, and about this night. We are wondering about the part of it that is behind us, and the part of it that lies ahead, as the meter on this time we’re spending together runs down.”
― Gordon MacMillan, Songs for Your Mother

“Places are so much about people, aren’t they?”
― Gordon MacMillan, Songs for Your Mother

“songs are our poetry, that they are the soundtrack to our romances, to our first kisses and our break-ups.”
― Gordon MacMillan, Songs for Your Mother