Nick Swarbrick

“Ostension. A process by which real-life actions are unconsciously modelled on a legend, thereby narrated into praxis. Like a self-fulfilling prophecy. Or seeing ghosts in an old house that you have been told is haunted.”
― Benjamin Myers, These Darkening Days

“the ouzo having oiled away their inhibitions.”
― Benjamin Myers, These Darkening Days

“The rock is cold and impartial beneath his hand. When he places a palm there he feels time slip away. Ancient and obvious, it is incapable of experiencing pain. With trembling hands Garner turns up his collar and zips up his coat.”
― Benjamin Myers, These Darkening Days

“amor ipse notitia est and amor ipse intellectus est”
― Thomas Wyatt, The Cistercian World: Monastic Writings of the Twelfth Century