Arthur Phillips quotes

“He fell in love with Manhattan's skyline, like a first-time brothel guest falling for a seasoned professional. He mused over her reflections in the black East River at dusk, dawn, or darkest night, and each haloed light-in a tower or strung along the jeweled and sprawling spider legs of the Brooklyn Bridge's spans-hinted at some meaning, which could be understood only when made audible by music and encoded in lyrics.”
-- Arthur Phillips

Source : Arthur Phillips (2004). “The Egyptologist: A Novel”, p.515, Random House

#Fall Quotes #Reflection Quotes #Night Quotes

“It was so much easier to be alone, if one could find just the right location.”
-- Arthur Phillips

Source : Arthur Phillips (2002). “Prague: A Novel”, p.126, Random House

#Location Quotes #Easier Quotes

“How much of life could he spend aching? Aching is not a stable condition; it must resolve into something”
-- Arthur Phillips

Source : Arthur Phillips (2009). “The Song Is You: A Novel”, p.210, Random House

#Resolve Quotes

“Love is not sufficient. It never has been. Stories that claim otherwise are lies. There's always SOMETHING after happily ever after.”
-- Arthur Phillips

Source : Arthur Phillips (2010). “The Song is You”, p.270, Gerald Duckworth & Co

#Lying Quotes #Love Is Quotes #Stories Quotes

“The strangest thing. I came to the end of other people so quickly. Each new person was like a glass of water, and at the beginning I was parched, but then each glass tasted a little worse, the water was grittier, and by the end even the first sip was enough to make me gag, you know?”
-- Arthur Phillips

Source : Arthur Phillips (2010). “The Song is You”, p.254, Gerald Duckworth & Co

#Glasses Quotes #Water Quotes #People Quotes

“There are few things more pleasing than the contemplation of order and useful arrangement.”
-- Arthur Phillips

#Order Quotes #Contemplation Quotes #Arrangements Quotes

“The truth is, anyone who puts so much of herself and her life into art as you do must naturally fear any failure in that art as a potential threat to your life. And so you protect your art more than you protect your health or the common forms of happiness the rest of us have. And you probably have this in common with every artist you admire.”
-- Arthur Phillips

#Art Quotes #Common Quotes #Truth Is Quotes

“But music is, at the very minimum, inflammatory, exclusionary, divisive, encouraging of snobbery and solipsism.”
-- Arthur Phillips

Source : Arthur Phillips (2009). “The Song Is You: A Novel”, p.42, Random House

#Music Is Quotes #Minimum Quotes #Snobbery Quotes

“You deicde, and you make our night what you want. Brilliant and ours. Stupid and theirs.”
-- Arthur Phillips

Source : Arthur Phillips (2004). “The Egyptologist: A Novel”, p.502, Random House

#Stupid Quotes #Night Quotes #Want Quotes

“When you can turn people on their head and shake them and no money falls out, then you know God's saying, "Move on, son."”

“Stars, I have seen them fall, But when they drop and die No star is lost at all From all the star-sown sky. The toil of all that be Helps not the primal fault; It rains into the sea And still the sea is salt.”

“Certainly, last year we did an episode about the census and sampling versus a direct statistic. You just said the word 'census,' and people fall asleep.”

“In all her twisted perfection she had made me fall helplessly in love with her. A life without her in it seemed pointless.”

“Terror ripped through me as I was falling, falling, falling toward the sea.”

Source : Abby Sunderland, Lynn Vincent (2011). “Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas”, p.125, Thomas Nelson Inc

“Darkness is where we begin and where we end. We don't usually see light traveling in darkness of space because we only can see its reflection on substance.”

“Recruiting Station was a story that came as the result of many anxious awakenings during many nights.”

“I developed a mania for Fitzgerald - by the time I'd graduated from high school I'd read everything he'd written. I started with 'The Great Gatsby' and moved on to 'Tender Is the Night,' which just swept me away. Then I read 'This Side of Paradise,' his novel about Princeton - I literally slept with that book under my pillow for two years.”

“You can look at the words on this paper and, because they are the ones I am used to choosing, they will show you the shape of me. I am here to be read in the way you might read the impression of my weight in a bed after a still night, a restless night, a night not alone.”

Source : A.L. Kennedy (2010). “Original Bliss”, p.74, Random House

“Last night I'd made love to a woman for the first and last time. It had been amazing and I had a memory that would shape the rest of my life.”