Colin Jack

“... we ask of writers what we ask of our closest friends: to help us mediate and interpret the world.”
― Hisham Matar, My Friends

“At first I thought, to be a parent you have to be an idealist. Then I learnt that to be a parent is to be continually coming up against everything that is not ideal about you.”
― Hisham Matar, My Friends

“And I want some other stuff. A radio, for one. I want to know what’s going on out there. And food: proper food. Fresh bread—”
“Whatever you need.”
“—and ginger. The preserved kind, you know? In syrup.”
“I know.”
― Clive Barker, The Hellbound Heart

“To love someone else enough to forget about yourself even for one moment is to be free. The mystics and the churchmen talk about throwing off this body and its desires, being no longer a slave to the flesh. They don’t say that through the flesh we are set free. That our desire for another will lift us out of ourselves more cleanly than anything divine.”
― Jeanette Winterson, The Passion