Quotes from Andrew Taylor

Time doesn't heal, it just gives you other things to think about.

Books are not luxuries. They are the meat and drink for the mind.

That's what hell means, perhaps, being compelled not just to live but to relive.

The grief of children was unconditional, fueled by the implicit belief that it would last forever; for a child, grief was not grief unless it was eternal.

We distract ourselves with details. It's a way of coping.

One grey cloak is much like another, just as all cats are grey in the dark.

THE OFFICIAL NAME of the road was Portugal Street, in honour of our Queen, Catherine of Braganza, but everyone persisted in calling it Piccadilly. It was an old route west to Hyde Park and then towards Reading. Long ago, some of the land nearby had been owned by a man who had grown rich in the manufacture of those large old collars of cutwork lace named piccadills, and somehow the name had been transferred to the road.

Why do we think only the dead haunt us, for the living are just as good at it?

We put the labels we choose on things [...], and for our own purposes. That is the long and the short of it.

power exercises over the civilian population.

Firmitas, utilitas, venustas, she thought. Buildings should be like the nests of birds and bees.

The thing about Duran... that gives you the ability to bring all that opportunity back into your life.

Rock n roll is what I would die for, but I love music and I love exploring, taking the challenge of playing, writing or singing... or producing.