“Hell, she knows why you chew your nails, why your eyes are blue one day, black the next. And all you want to do then is curl yourself with her, snug like a worm, lay your pumping head down in… — Kirsty Gunn Copy Share Image
“A player whose technical skill is not of the first rank will make gracenotes longer than they should be. As a result he has… — Kirsty Gunn Copy Share Image
“Hell, she knows why you chew your nails, why your eyes are blue one day, black the next. And all you want to do… — Kirsty Gunn Copy Share Image
“She holds within her the memory of this journey, drawn out for her like a constellation in the darkness, each element of the landscape… — Kirsty Gunn Copy Share Image
“When the rain came it came first as the scent of rain, the grey air stained darker behind the hills. Then when it came… — Kirsty Gunn Copy Share Image
“No one would ever find her here. Even from the high saddle there was no sign of the way she'd come, no path, no… — Kirsty Gunn Copy Share Image
“That minute, that tiny second when you hit the water flat on, you lose your breath. All the air flattens out of you -… — Kirsty Gunn Copy Share Image
“We can't change things, you and I. We sit up here all day, under a bad sun, but we can't stop the weather turning.… — Kirsty Gunn Copy Share Image
“Could have been, mind you. And that's one big mother of a conditional. Because who's to say she wanted me in the same way?… — Kirsty Gunn Copy Share Image
“Only let the darkness inside her that she fears also be the darkness of infinite gentleness, the mouth for killing the same mouth that… — Kirsty Gunn Copy Share Image
