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1 " No one has the ability to laugh at their misfortunes like the women of the East End. "
― Philip Ridley , Ghost from a Perfect Place
2 " And I thought, I am in love. For the first time I am in love. And loved. Someone loves me. And I love them. And within me things clicked and whirled like the insides of some gigantic clock, cog against wheel, spring against spiral, tick against tock, and I knew that nothing would ever be the same again. I had shown someone what I really was. I had shown someone my truth, my secret. Out there, beyond the walls of the Castle, there was a boy who had seen inside my chrysalis. And I would never be safe again. "
― Philip Ridley
3 " Darwin got it all wrong, you see. Fitness has nothing to do with it. It's survival of the sickest. That's all. "
― Philip Ridley , The Pitchfork Disney
4 " I heard a baby cry. And this blood-splattered thing was put in my arms. My child. And, at that moment, it was like a gigantic plug appeared and - POW! - I was plugged into humanity in a way I'd never been before. Never could be. I was part of all mothers and all births from the beginning of time. I was a woman in a mud hut in Africa, in an igloo in the Arctic, a wigwam in America, a cave, a skyscraper, a spaceship. I was part of a flow and that flow was blood - "
5 " I love you so much I could burst into flames. "
6 " We're all as bad as each other. All hungry little cannibals at our own cannibal party. So fuck the milk of human kindness and welcome to the abattoir! "
― Philip Ridley , The Fastest Clock in the Universe
7 " We're like . . . like dinosaurs bedazzled by all the pretty lights in the sky, too fucking stupid to realise it's a comet getting closer and closer. "
― Philip Ridley , Shivered
8 " When we are born we are magical and loving and full of wonder. But darkness and ignorance surround us at every corner. Until the day someone calls us a monster or a devil and we believe them. "
― Philip Ridley , In the Eyes of Mr Fury
9 " The way you see yourself is important, you see. It's as if you carve yourself out of your own interpretation. And so I became the name I was called. "
10 " Slit my skull open. Know what it'll be like? Like slitting open the guts of a great white shark. Stuff'll come out like you wouldn't fucking believe. "
― Philip Ridley , Mercury Fur
11 " When the Devil gets bored he tells stories to his bats and these bats fly to us and give us these stories as nightmares. "
12 " Men we have never met took our son. They took him without our express permission. They tortured him then they … killed him. And there is no understanding it. There is no meaning. No coming to terms with it. Not now. Not tomorrow. Not ever. We will wake up every day for the rest of our lives and we will breathe razor blades and we will swim through bleach. And there is no escape from this. There is no comfort. There is just … blades and bleach. Until we die. "
13 " When we are born we are all wonderful. But, gradually, masks and streets are erected around us, walls and lies fence us in, make us prisoners, trap us inside our skulls, turn hearts to stone, until the magic—once bright and sparkling—turns black and blistered in our minds. "
14 " We live our lives between magic and panic. "
