Quotes by Graham Joyce

Because two people in love dont make a hive mind. Neither should they want to be a hive mind, to think the same, to know the same. Its about being separate and still loving each other, being distinct from each other. One is the violin string one is the bow.

You let go. Its as simple and as complicated as Antonia had told me. You cry. You come. You sing. You laugh. You scream. You let go. No one needs to hang on to a first edition. Whoever wrote it; even if it was Moses. I looked back up at the sky, blinking at the lustrous beauty of the ascending and departing demons. They formed an alphabet I was beginning to learn to read. They were fire in the sky.

Twenty years is, after all, a long time. We are not the same people we were. Old friends, lovers, even family members: they are strangers who happen to wear a familiar face. We have no right to claim to know anyone after such a distance.

The trouble with forgiveness is that some people dont want to be forgiven.

There are certain songs, and books, and films that are like points of high ground in the memory. Like they are even larger than your own experiences. They never go away.

He said he preferred to feel the earth sing through his feet, and that shoes stopped you from hearing the song of the earth.

I am less interested in ghosts than in people who see ghosts.

Some people feed you with love.

And there was Tara, again with that shy half-smile and her burgundy lips slightly puckered, that shy kink, an incomplete curlicue at the corner of her mouth; hed seen it before many times but never noted it, and now it had him mesmerized.

The mist hung in the air like a prancing unicorn.

Rationally speaking, blaming ones behavior on alcohol or drugs is like blaming the ladder by which you descended into a pit, or the staircase that took you down to a cellar, for what you found there.

Perhaps writers should never be allowed to get together in a workplace context. Its not like studying computer science, after all. The emotions are at large, and are shared and are questioned. There is a vulnerability.

The poetry and transgression that was so much of surrealisms anarchic force has been recruited into mainstream culture. It has been made commonplace by television and magazine merchandising, by computer games and Internet visuals, by film and MTV, by the fashion shoot.