Pat Lowery Collins > Quotes

“I doze and wake so many times
my dreams reach over what is real,
the real becomes my dreams.”
― Pat Lowery Collins, The Fattening Hut

“Time. There is never enough of it.”
― Pat Lowery Collins, Hidden Voices: The Orphan Musicians of Venice

“another gash has opened
in the center of myself.
The farther that I travel
from the things I know,
the more I am certain
I can only mend
this widening wound
by moving on
to things I have not known.”
― Pat Lowery Collins, The Fattening Hut

“When at last I feel ready to tackle the whole of the piece, I begin slowly, delighting in the silvery tone of this violin and making my away as I would across the slippery stepping stones in the kitchen garden after a rain.”
― Pat Lowery Collins, Hidden Voices: The Orphan Musicians of Venice

“You can find him by following the leaping shadows along the walls of the school corridor, for Father Vivaldi often paces there and waves his arms about.”
― Pat Lowery Collins, Hidden Voices: The Orphan Musicians of Venice