Nick Bantock > Quotes

“Pain and beauty, our constant bedfellows”
― Nick Bantock, Griffin & Sabine

“The threads of circumstance that lead to tomorrow are so tenuous that all the fussing and worrying about decisions is futile compared to the pure randomness of existence.”
― Nick Bantock

“I've started to hate this city, this country, all these STUPID FUCKING PEOPLE.”
― Nick Bantock

“I have loved you in every manner that my imagination could contrive. I have wanted you so deeply that my body sang with pain and pleasure. You have been my obsession, my passion, my philosophers' stone of fantasy. You are my desire, my longing, my spirit. I love you unconditionally. - Sabine Strohem”
― Nick Bantock, Sabine's Notebook

“Foolish man. You cannot turn me into a phantom because you are frightened. You do not dismiss a muse at whim. - Sabine Strohem”
― Nick Bantock, Griffin & Sabine

“Do you see that I cherish you beyond question, that you have nothing to prove to me? You are making your journey to secure yourself. I am already tethered to your side. if you can love yourself as I love you there will be no dislocation --- you will be whole. Bring yourself home to me and I will immerse you in very ounce of tenderness I possess. - Sabine Strohem”
― Nick Bantock, Sabine's Notebook

“She who licks her lips knows the taste of her lover's desires”
― Nick Bantock, The Morning Star: In Which the Extraordinary Correspondence of Griffin & Sabine is Illuminated

“I don't think I am scared of intimacy, but I am frightened of making a mistake. offering more than I have, or expecting more than you can give. - Matt Sedon”
― Nick Bantock, The Gryphon: In Which the Extraordinary Correspondence of Griffin & Sabine Is Rediscovered

“in the caves of my heart, where pain taps out its rhythms and sorrow sets its loss, i am without direction.”
― Nick Bantock, Windflower

“It is pointless to be any less than all you can be.”
― Nick Bantock, The Morning Star: In Which the Extraordinary Correspondence of Griffin & Sabine is Illuminated

“From our few days together, I have only one regret. Why did I not love you harder, stronger? If I could have you Love, now, I'd hold you so closely that our particles would absorb into one another. - Isabella de Reims”
― Nick Bantock, The Gryphon: In Which the Extraordinary Correspondence of Griffin & Sabine Is Rediscovered

“I never loved anyone else and never desired to. She was my companion, my lover, and my teacher.”
― Nick Bantock, The Venetian's Wife: A Strangely Sensual Tale of a Renaissance Explorer, a Computer, and a Metamorphosis

“An idea or an insight doesn't come from a single happening, it requires a meeting to alter a perspective. Often it takes a while for the events to collide, but when they do it is inevitable that a change will follow.”
― Nick Bantock, The Forgetting Room

“I was frightened to go forward, but I was even more frightened of going back.”
― Nick Bantock, Windflower

“she hurriedly wipes her eyes so that he can see the girl he wishes.”
― Nick Bantock, Windflower

“I could see sunlight making exquisite patterns on the water's surface above me. Everything seemed fascinating and very slow. All around me lionfish darted like golden suns and moons in an alchemists's dream. I looked down to where a vast labyrinth of black seaweed awaited me.”
― Nick Bantock, Sabine's Notebook

“She demanded, "Give up your life of idolatry and become a doctor."
I declined. "I have my geraniums to look after.”
― Nick Bantock, The Forgetting Room: A Fiction

“It is pointless to be any less than all you can be. - Sabine Strohem”
― Nick Bantock, The Morning Star: In Which the Extraordinary Correspondence of Griffin & Sabine is Illuminated

“Sensual images of you are forever tangoing through my brain--maybe I can begin solidify them. At least they would be mine! - Matthew Sedon”
― Nick Bantock, The Morning Star: In Which the Extraordinary Correspondence of Griffin & Sabine is Illuminated

“Our house was a temple to The Book. We owned thousands, nay millions of books. They lined the walls, filled the cupboards, and turned the floor into a maze far more complex than Hampton Court’s. Books ruled out lives. They were our demi-gods.”
― Nick Bantock, Griffin & Sabine

“(I'm trying to improve my typing. notice I now leave a space after a comma, I'm very proud of myself!)”
― Nick Bantock

“Our house was a temple to The Book. We owned thousands, nay millions of books. They lined the walls, filled the cupboards, and turned the floor into a maze far more complex than Hampton Court's. Books ruled out lives. They were our demi-gods.”
― Nick Bantock, Griffin & Sabine

“Art becomes a spiritual process depending upon the degree of commitment that you bring to it. Every experience becomes direct food for your art. Then your art teaches you about life.”
― Nick Bantock

“Now that you're there and have been all along, I feel whole again. - Griffin Moss”
― Nick Bantock

“Why is it that looking down seems so much higher than looking up?”
― Nick Bantock, Windflower

“Until the moment I met you, I always seem to be caught between dreading the responsibility of someone else’s love and being resentful that I didn’t feel properly loved myself. Often both seemed to exist at the same time. With you it’s different. I can’t hear enough about your love for me. Yet still, in some way I’m holding back. it’s as though I can’t fully let go without causing an eruption of need, hunger, and desire of such overwhelming proportions that it would wipe me out entirely.”
― Nick Bantock, Alexandria: In Which the Extraordinary Correspondence of Griffin & Sabine Unfolds

“Sometimes willpower alone cannot make things happen.”
― Nick Bantock, Griffin & Sabine

“her mother is asking her a question and she is forced to resurface from the sanctuary of daydream.”
― Nick Bantock, Windflower

“Move fluidly by earth of water and stop to listen to the wind as it whispers your whereabouts. . . Savour the path and enjoy the sun.”
― Nick Bantock, The Morning Star: In Which the Extraordinary Correspondence of Griffin & Sabine is Illuminated

“You have told me your history, but speak little fo teh present. Why's that - Sabine Strohem”
― Nick Bantock, Griffin & Sabine