Quotes from Jane Rogers

If you'll never leave me, I'll never leave you.

What's the truth? The truth is what people WANT. Liars are basically idealists, liars are saints and prophets. Jesus was a liar.

Stillness was most natural. To go on scrabbling and running and grasping after some kind of life was aberration; stillness was lasting.

Lips move; lips touch; lips signal. Lips are on the outside for show, and on the most secret inside of your mouth. Lips frame words that lie. Lips frame a hole that wants to be filled.

You want to save the world." "What's wrong with that?" He sighed in exasperation. "You are too young to understand. People get by." "I don't want to get by. I want to know my life's been useful.

I climbed the ditch, walked out into the middle of the prayer stones and stared across to the monks' island. If you stood there and thought you heard mass when it wasn't being sung, how would it be different to standing there when it was being sung? Would the mass in your head be any less real?

We lay on the short grass and looked at the sky, waiting for the tide to go out. Even as we watched the clouds shrank and disappeared, we could see right into the universe.