Jim Crace Inspirational Quotes (5)

There's solace in the thought that I will never finish missing her.

Try pitching a story of happiness to your editors and their toes are going to curl up.

My father had osteomyelitis-his left arm was withered between his elbow and his shoulder ... . But the amputation of a Stone Age man called Leaf, a stoneworker, does not relate to my father at all.

...crushed between the fears of going forward and the dread of going back.

These are the stories that we tell ourselves and only ourselves, and they are better left unshared.