Mikey Campling > Mikey's Quotes

“You’ll get over it…” It’s the clichés that cause the trouble. To lose someone you love is to alter your life for ever. You don’t get over it because ‘it” is the person you loved. The pain stops, there are new people, but the gap never closes. How could it? The particularness of someone who mattered enough to grieve over is not made anodyne by death. This hole in my heart is in the shape of you and no-one else can fit it. Why would I want them to?”
― Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body

“Burlic screamed. He threw back his head and roared a single furious word into the night: “Waeccan.” The name erupted from him in a savage wail that rasped at his throat, over and over until he could shout no more.
His howls echoed along the valley. In the village, the other hunters heard and exchanged glances, shook their heads and said nothing. The women clutched their talismans, told the children to go inside. They had tried to help, but there was nothing they could do for Burlic now.”
― Mikey Campling, Trespass

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“The cool touch of the rock soothed Waeccan. He felt its strength
flowing into him, trickling through his fingertips. The Shades were
on his side. They would bring back the peace he needed for his
work. The intruder was just a man—nothing more. He would be
dealt with. Everything would be as it was meant to be. Waeccan
allowed himself a grim smile. How strange it was that he, whose
name meant watcher, had become the one who was watched.”
― Mikey Campling, Trespass

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
― Oscar Wilde

“You have all the tact of a gently lobbed hand grenade.”
― Michael Campling, A Study in Stone

“Tourists are like sharks: they have to keep in motion, their mouths wide open, constantly consuming new experiences, or they stop enjoying themselves.”
― Michael Campling, A Study in Stone

“suppose, these days, we’d call it spin or fake news, but there’s nothing new about propaganda. Take it from me; I’ve seen screeds of the stuff. Mind you, it can be illuminating. It tells you what people were prepared to believe, which can provide valuable insights into the way they thought and acted.”
― Michael Campling, A Study in Stone

“But while the flames of remembrance burned bright, the memories could only grow more abstract. We mourn for a generation, Dan decided, but there’s no one who can point to a headstone and say, “He was my friend.”
― Michael Campling, A Study in Stone

“Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of magic.”
― Carl Sagan, Cosmos