Quotes from Nick Bantock

From our few days together, I have only one regret. Why did I not love you harder, stronger? If I could have you Love, now, I'd hold you so closely that our particles would absorb into one another. - Isabella de Reims

An idea or an insight doesn't come from a single happening, it requires a meeting to alter a perspective. Often it takes a while for the events to collide, but when they do it is inevitable that a change will follow.

I was frightened to go forward, but I was even more frightened of going back.

It is pointless to be any less than all you can be. - Sabine Strohem

she hurriedly wipes her eyes so that he can see the girl he wishes.

She demanded, "Give up your life of idolatry and become a doctor." I declined. "I have my geraniums to look after.

I'm trying to improve my typing. notice I now leave a space after a comma, I'm very proud of myself!)

Our house was a temple to The Book. We owned thousands, nay millions of books. They lined the walls, filled the cupboards, and turned the floor into a maze far more complex than Hampton Court's. Books ruled out lives. They were our demi-gods.

I could see sunlight making exquisite patterns on the water's surface above me. Everything seemed fascinating and very slow. All around me lionfish darted like golden suns and moons in an alchemists's dream. I looked down to where a vast labyrinth of black seaweed awaited me.

Sensual images of you are forever tangoing through my brain--maybe I can begin solidify them. At least they would be mine! - Matthew Sedon

Sometimes willpower alone cannot make things happen.

Now that you're there and have been all along, I feel whole again. - Griffin Moss

Our house was a temple to The Book. We owned thousands, nay millions of books. They lined the walls, filled the cupboards, and turned the floor into a maze far more complex than Hampton Court's. Books ruled out lives. They were our demi-gods.

Why is it that looking down seems so much higher than looking up?

Art becomes a spiritual process depending upon the degree of commitment that you bring to it. Every experience becomes direct food for your art. Then your art teaches you about life.

Move fluidly by earth of water and stop to listen to the wind as it whispers your whereabouts. . . Savour the path and enjoy the sun.

Would your fear be any less and would you see that you had been chosen to help the sun rise? -Sabine to Matthew

her mother is asking her a question and she is forced to resurface from the sanctuary of daydream.