6 Quotes by Nick Laird

There is such a shelter in each other.

an English girl might well believethat time is how you spend your love.

Let me be clear and accomodative, more like water than ice; and raise my hands to showI mean no harm, and that I’m stupid, and malicious, and if I’m trying to be fearlessI know it gives me no right to act like this.

... time is how you spend your love ...

What passes for love is imperfect knowledge. Not knowing, initially, allows faithlessness to dress up as its opposite; casts the inarticulate as enigmatic, the selfish as forgetful, the angry as impassioned.

She was privileged enough to feel at home anywhere, and to equate squalor with authenticity.