Stuart Prebble > Quotes

“It's funny how, when you look back on the big things that have happened in your life, you realize that there were small things you might have done which would completely have changed the course of events.”
― Stuart Prebble, The Insect Farm

“In those days I would drink eight pints of Guinness in the course of an evening, stagger back to my bed,and then live through that dreadful and totally disconcerting ordeal of spinning in outer space every time I closed my eyes.Did this happen to you? It must have.You'd close them for a few moments, hoping to go off to sleep, but your entire body would feel as though it was literally going into rotation - like you were on an out-of-control space-walk- and would continue to spin at a fast-increasing velocity until you opened your eyes and struggled to regain your bearings.Then you'd have another go, closing your eyes and hoping to lose consciousness before the spinning became unbearable, but easily having to pull yourself around a few times.Eventually, you would lose consciousness and disappear into a black hole.”
― Stuart Prebble, Grumpy Old Men: The Secret Diary

“The funny thing about saying something in anger is that once it has been said, it cannot be unsaid. The second it’s floating in the ether, it’s there forever. Hanging there, like a sword.”
― Stuart Prebble, The Insect Farm