“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? After all, she left me, didn't she? Maybe I didn't try too hard to get her… — 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
