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Jon McGregor QUOTES

21 " He wonders what memories she is rediscovering, what thoughts are catching in her mouth like the dust blown from unused textbooks. "

― Jon McGregor , If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things

22 " He wonders how so much water can resist the pull of so much gravity for the time it takes such pregnant clouds to form, he wonders about the moment the rain begins, the turn from forming to falling, that slight silent pause in the physics of the sky as the critical mass is reached, the hesitation before the first swollen drop hurtles fatly and effortlessly to the ground. "

― Jon McGregor , If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things

23 " they’ve come here to dance, drawn sideways from their route home by the music and by bravado, and now they are hesitating, unsure of how to begin, unfamiliar with the steps, embarrassed.............they dance, and he smiles and nods and thinks of his wife sleeping at home, and thinks of when they were young and might still have done something like this………… but here, as the dawn sneaks up on the last day of summer, and as a man with tired hands watches a young couple dance in the carpark of his restaurant, there are only these: sparkling eyes, smudged lipstick, fading starlight, the crunching of feet on gravel, laughter, and a slow walk home…… "

― Jon McGregor , If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things

24 " the architecture student from number eleven presses his face to the glass and looks at the way the light falls through the water, he thinks about a place where he worked in the spring, an office where they had a stack of empty watercooler bottles against the window, and how he would sit and watch the sun mazing its way through the layers of refraction, the beauty of it, he called it spontaneous maths and he wanted to build architecture like he that, he looks at the row of houses opposite and he pictures them built entirely of plastic and glass, he imagines how people's lives might change if their dwellings shook with endless reflections of light, he does not know if it's possible but he thinks it's a nice idea "

― Jon McGregor , If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things

25 " People just wanted to open their mouths and talk, and they didn't much mind what came out. "

― Jon McGregor , Reservoir 13

26 " the rain falls, catching the trailing edges of net curtains which flow out of open windows like fishing nets lowered over the backs of boats, nets hung neatly between the outside and the in, keeping floundering secrets firmly hidden... "

― Jon McGregor , If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things

27 " And he'd looked straight back at her, holding her professional eye contact, and said yes, thankyou doctor, I do understand, yes. And he'd coughed, hard, repeatedly, spraying blooded phlegm into his handkerchief as to prove how much he understood.
Yes, thankyou doctor, I understand.
Things are not exactly one hundred percent the way we would like them to be. "

― Jon McGregor , If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things

28 " It's a question of priorities, he said. You get your plants in at the right time, get the mulch down, do the weeding, do the watering,that's work enough. You do all that, you'll enjoy being here, A plot full of healthy plants, crops coming off, flowers out, that's the best little place in the world. You'll not be worrrying about benches or lawns or tidy paths. "

― Jon McGregor , Reservoir 13

29 " Say excuse me but, really, I am actually very much in love with you. "

― Jon McGregor , If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things

30 " The only clouds are pale and thin, hung as high as they can manage, like cobwebs in the high arches of a stairwell, and the sky is a freshly scrubbed blue, as permanent-looking as the first day of the holidays. "

― Jon McGregor , If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things

31 " How quickly darkness falls. "

― Jon McGregor , Reservoir 13

32 " But there are people too he says, everywhere there are people and I think it is easier to hold hands with people than it is with angels, yes? "

― Jon McGregor , If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things

33 " It makes me feel primitive, rooted, connected to the dirt of the earth and the light of the stars, a spun thread pulled across the span of generations. "

― Jon McGregor , If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things

34 " And I say too much of what, he says too much of everything, too much stuff, too many places, too much information, too many people, too much of things for there to be too much of, there is too much to know and I don't know where to begin but I want to try. "

― Jon McGregor , If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things

35 " Her name was Rebecca, or Becky, or Bex. She'd been wearing a white hooded top with a navy-blue body-warmer. She would be twenty-three years old by now. She had been seen in the beech wood, climbing a tree. She had been seen at the railway station. She had been seen by the side of the road. She had been looked for, everywhere. She could have arranged to meet somebody, and been driven safely away.She could have fallen down a hole. She could have been hurt by her parents in some terrible mistake. She could have gone away because she'd chosen to, or because she had no choice. People still wanted to know. "

― Jon McGregor , Reservoir 13

36 " We don't always have the words. But we can talk around things. "

― Jon McGregor , Lean Fall Stand

37 " brief dry kisses, hugs, little more – would be swept aside in a hurried series of remembered moves and gestures. "

― Jon McGregor , So Many Ways to Begin

38 " William Pearson said that really what they were talking about at the end of the day was Martin Fowler constantly parking like a cunt. "

― Jon McGregor , Reservoir 13

39 " Ask that we not allow ourselves to be overcome by a grief which is not ours to indulge but instead be uplifted by faith and enabled to help that suffering family in whatever way we are called to do "

― Jon McGregor , Reservoir 13

40 " in the way her long thin fingers fiddled with a sugar cube, in the way she held his eye when she spoke, in the way he wanted to reach across and tuck a stray wisp of hair back behind her ear. "

― Jon McGregor , So Many Ways to Begin