Stephen Leigh > Quotes

“The island’s cliffs do not grasp the cloud’s shadow The amberdrop cannot hold the wind’s sigh Like the cloud, like the wind Your breath takes the moment in Your breath sends it away again”
― Stephen Leigh, Speaking Stones

“No one much seemed to comprehend the shapes he wore, but Ghost wore them anyway, because doing so amused him. Being a construct, “amusement” wasn’t precisely the right term, but it was a close approximation for the exhilarating openness of the neural web, the crackle of new pathways and unexpected interconnections.”
― Stephen Leigh, Speaking Stones

“I think we go brain-dead when talking with kids. All the sudden I was saying things my mi and da had said to me two decades ago. The words must sit around dormant, generation to generation, waiting to infect our vocal cords when we get older.”
― Stephen Leigh, Dark Water's Embrace

“We wanted something in which to believe, as many people on Earth once believed in demons, or in sunken lost continents, in a face on Mars, crop circles, visitations from being on other planets, or God, Buddha, Christ, Allah, and so on. The fact that all of the above were total nonsense didn’t change the desire to believe that there was Something Else out there, something that could make sense of chaotic lives and events.”
― Stephen Leigh, Speaking Stones

“The past has but one path, the present has many and the future none.”
― Stephen Leigh, Speaking Stones