Craig Stone

Quotes

• “I was staying in a hotel in San Francisco for a couple of nights, before flying back to the UK. My hotel was a desperate...”
• “Small quarrels and tensions were expected because of our new environment. Every relationship has them. Each quarrel was ...”
• “The days and the light feel like brief moments of torture, put here to remind us of what we don’t have any more. Joy is ...”
• “There’s only one Earth, and it’s tiny, but evil human leaders avoid problems they don’t want to resolve by giving them n...”
• “We used to talk and smile seven days ago when I was wearing a suit. Now I'm dressed in a beard and smell of dog shit I d...”
• “He brings the cigarette butt to his mouth and lights up. He breathes in, and coughs; a rattling helicopter with a broken...”
• “My landlord lives in the flat at the bottom of the stairs. I rent a studio flat from him, and live at the top of the sta...”
• “Without the sleeping bag I'm just somebody up early in the morning, sitting under a tree. With the sleeping bag I'm nobo...”
• “A watched pot never boils, but if I took my eyes from these negative thoughts for a second they would spill over the edg...”
• “The word begone is a Russian doll. A small, single word, which contains so many others; and when all the smaller words i...”
• “Friday dusk becomes Friday evening. The park is feverish with life. A young Asian man screams into his mobile phone, not...”
• “Nobody has to do anything wrong to end up living a life that feels like it’s not their own, all they have to do is take ...”
• “Some days I am the flower beneath the machine. And the machine rolls slowly on, blocking the sun, without a care for wha...”
• “Sleep doesn't come easy when a broken twig conjures images of a hulking mental patient snapping the arms off children, o...”
• “Love is born from disagreeing over something we believe in. Hate is born from disagreeing over something we fear.”
• “The question should be who do we want to be when we grow up, not what.”
• “They put money into attack, by calling it defence.”
• “My eyes open after my mind. All eyes always do.”