Gwendoline Riley quotes:

She was learning something important: how to live within the sound of her own slow breathing, how to love the view when her eyes were shut.

He says,'Why is it love, Esther? Why call it that?''Because. Why is what you do art? Because you say so.

It's true about the running water. You can hear anything you want to in it.

If only i could get that under control then i feel like i could stay here a long time, watching the days leaking into the nights, swilling over the buildings, bleeding back again. I could lie and not think of anything but ways to describe the sky, the clouds, the light.

It's all about vanity, isn't it? I think it says something about people if they can't do it

I don't know what I'm playing at. I feel so romantic and furious all the time.

Very intimate but very separate at the same time'. That's my credo for friendship.