Quotes by : Barney Norris

The world is full of things put off for the wrong reasons, which can suddenly become impossible without....

The world holds no trace of what happens in it unless we carve it in with violence or concrete.

Grief's not like a cancer, doesn't go when the operation's done and the darkness is out. It's a knife....

That's how it is with a thing like grief as well. It lies oil slick over everything you do. It will pour....

[Life] has been passing since the day he was born, and everything he puts off, chooses not to do or say....

The thing about stone is you don't get to the heart of it. It stares back into you, its secret intact....

Perhaps all adult life was an attempt to keep alight the fires that burned when you were young.

One thing a death will do is make you reflect on how many kinds of love there are to be experienced in....

The old are a regular subject for sympathy.

Every bar in the scores of ourselves is already into memory into imagination, even as we play it out.....