Nick Laird > Quotes

“There is such a shelter in each other.”
― Nick Laird

“We would all rather be loved for what we seem to be.”
― Nick Laird, Glover's Mistake

“He unzipped his hooded top and took it off, and wished emotions were like clothes, that he could remove them, fold them, set them somewhere.”
― Nick Laird, Glover's Mistake

“an English girl might well believe
that time is how you spend your love.”
― Nick Laird, To a Fault

“She was privileged enough to feel at home anywhere, and to equate squalor with authenticity.”
― Nick Laird, Glover's Mistake

“... time is how you spend your love ...”
― Nick Laird

“There is no privilege as great as that enjoyed by those 'To Whom Things Come Easily'.”
― Nick Laird, Glover's Mistake

“Let me be clear and accomodative, more like
water than ice; and raise my hands to show

I mean no harm, and that I’m stupid,
and malicious, and if I’m trying to be fearless
I know it gives me no right to act like this.”
― Nick Laird, Feel Free

“Time is how you spend your love.
From his poem The Last Saturday In Ulster”
― Nick Laird, To a Fault

“What passes for love is imperfect knowledge. Not knowing, initially, allows faithlessness to dress up as its opposite; casts the inarticulate as enigmatic, the selfish as forgetful, the angry as impassioned.”
― Nick Laird, Glover's Mistake