123 Quotes About The-message-to-the-planet

He . . . felt as if, wanting to be needed by everyone, he were merely becoming some sort of semi-invisible messenger.

Ludens felt again that special curious anguish caused by glimpses of a happiness he would have felt if only things were different — which could be different, perhaps could easily be different — but somehow maddeningly were not.

Ludens felt that everyone around him was living in the present, a place where he certainly could not live.

One morning, one day, perhaps soon, she would come to him and find him gone; and she knew how much she did not want to see him die, and yet how much she also wished that he might die holding her hand. These thoughts induced tears, which he must not see; and she tried not to think too much about the terrible mystery which was to be enacted . . .

But the spark vanished, there was no longed-for recognition, no dawning sign of recovery. The love she had learnt in tending him was an enclosed love, muted and maimed, already mourning. They would never communicate now.

Is your father writing a book?" said Alison. "No. He's existing. Some people live, like the rest of us, like the people in your plays. He just exists.

I see him as a god from elsewhere who has lost his way . . .

How we tracked him, you most of all of course, and lost him and found him.

On this planet . . . many things are 'the rule' which are thoroughly evil and pernicious.