R.J. Bailey > Quotes

“Someone once tried to explain to me why football is so endlessly fascinating to its fans. It was all to do with unpredictability and consequences, he said. If you studied any match closely, you could trace how one bad pass, a missed tackle, a fluffed corner, a reckless clearance or an untrapped ball could, after seven, ten, fifteen further moves, be responsible for a crucial goal. It was, I suppose, a version of that”
― R.J. Bailey, Safe From Harm

“the most insignificant event can have momentous consequences down the line.”
― R.J. Bailey, Safe From Harm

“It had some relevance to the way the dominoes had fallen in my life. At least, I have come to think of them as toppling dominoes, when in fact it was a pile-up of unrelated events that only in hindsight appeared to display some sort of logic.”
― R.J. Bailey, Safe From Harm