Lotus

“Places don’t stay where you left them. You go back there, anywhere, and even if it looks exactly how it did before, it’s somewhere else.”
― Alan Moore, Jerusalem

“things from the interred past that poked up inconveniently into the present, halfway houses with their portals that went nowhere, that led only into a suggestive nothing.”
― Alan Moore, Jerusalem

“Give me a platform of ideas and harmonies on which to gesture and unfurl my wings. Give me a place to stand.”
― Alan Moore, Jerusalem

“The child had woken before she could ask whether this meant that pigeons were all human ghosts, forms that dead people had gone into and become, or whether they somehow existed simultaneously in Heaven, where dead people go, and up amongst the rafters of the derelict barn in the neighbour’s yard at the same time.”
― Alan Moore, Jerusalem