If you listen, you can hear it. The city, it sings. If you stand quietly, at the foot of a garden, in the middle of the street, on the roof of a house. It's clearest at night, when the sound cuts more sharply across the surface of things, when the song reaches out to a place inside you. It's a wordless song, for the most, but it's a song all the same, and nobody hearing it could doubt what it sings. And the song sings the loudest when you pick out each note.
Last week I was just someone who had had a first novel published. - Jon Mcgregor
Last week I was just someone who had had a first novel published.
- Jon Mcgregor
He says when your grandmother died your mother cried solidly for a week, solidly. She was crying with relief he says, it was like as if a door had be… - Jon Mcgregor
He says when your grandmother died your mother cried solidly for a week, solidly. She was crying with relief he says, it was like as if a door had be…
All the emails I get these days start with sorry but I've been so busy, and I don't understand how we can be so busy and then have nothing to say to … - Jon Mcgregor
All the emails I get these days start with sorry but I've been so busy, and I don't understand how we can be so busy and then have nothing to say to …
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 fo… - Jon Mcgregor
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 fo…
You must always look with both of your eyes and listen with both of your ears. He says this is a very big world and there are many many things you co… - Jon Mcgregor
You must always look with both of your eyes and listen with both of your ears. He says this is a very big world and there are many many things you co…
there are only these: sparkling eyes, smudged lipstick, fading starlight, the crunching of feet on gravel, laughter, and a slow walk home. - Jon Mcgregor
there are only these: sparkling eyes, smudged lipstick, fading starlight, the crunching of feet on gravel, laughter, and a slow walk home.
He thinks about her, at this moment, in her house, a few thin walls away, packing her life into boxes and bags and he wonders what memories she is re… - Jon Mcgregor
He thinks about her, at this moment, in her house, a few thin walls away, packing her life into boxes and bags and he wonders what memories she is re…
The whole city stopped - And this is a pause worth savouring, because the world will soon be complicated again. - Jon Mcgregor
The whole city stopped - And this is a pause worth savouring, because the world will soon be complicated again.
Everybodys got their own situation and their own needs. - Jon Mcgregor
Everybodys got their own situation and their own needs.
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