Jack Lasenby > Quotes

“Each time we come to a book we give it a different reading because we bring a different person to it. It is not you who reads the book, the book reads you”
― Jack Lasenby, The Shaman and the Droll

“We must trust everyone and no-one”
― Jack Lasenby, The Shaman and the Droll

“There are no superstitions but those you invent”
― Jack Lasenby

“Each time we come to a book we give it a different reading because we bring a different person to it. It is not you who reads the book, the book reads you.”
― Jack Lasenby

“Look at what they do in a lifetime," she said. "These hands lit fires, cooked, wove a thousand blankets and carpets. They helped children into the world. When you are old," Hagar said, "look at your hands, Ish, and think of what they have done, good things and bad. Hands are like faces. Every scar a story”
― Jack Lasenby, Because We Were the Travellers