75 Quotes by Iain Reid

I can remember we were happy, I say. Happy to have our own house.‘Can you recall anything specific, like a detail, or is it more a feeling you remember?’Anybody can remember details if you ask them to, I say, but it doesn’t mean it actually happened that way.I wait for him to make eye contact, which he does.‘You have a point, Junior,’ he says.’ You’re right.

Stories are the way we learn. Stories are how we understand each other. But realityhappens only once.

We never really know someone else's thoughts. And it's thoughts that count. Thought is reality. Actions can be faked.

Maybe it's impossible. Maybe even in the longest, closest, most successful marriages, the one partner doesn't always know what the other is thinking. We're never inside someone else's head. We can never really know someone else's thoughts. And it's thoughts that count. Thought is reality. Actions can be faked.

Reality happens only once.

We all know writing is a reclusive, lonely endeavour. It just is. But nobody writes alone.

Experience trumps age,' he said. 'We have to find ways to experience because that's how we learn, that's how we know.

Jake always liked his books and stories. And writing in his diaries. It was a comfort for him. He could work through things that way.”“That’s nice. I’ve noticed he still likes to write. He spends a lot of time writing.”“That’s how he makes sense of the world.

But isn’t being alone closer to the truest version of ourselves, when we’re not linked to another, not diluted by their presence and judgments? We form relationships with others, friends, family. That’s fine. Those relationships don’t bind the way love does. We can still have lovers, short-term. But only when alone can we focus on ourselves, know ourselves. How can we know ourselves without this solitude?