Light-sensitive Soul Prints

'Mummy, can you please pull the curtain and make it dark please? I'm scared of the light...'

They hated me.

Shoulda, Woulda, Coulda

"Hey! If you're here to marvel at the smallness of your existence within a glorious, vast and unknowable universe, there's a line!"

"Talking to your own reflection? Even your imagination is pathetic."

"Oh good, more time alone for quiet reflection."

That midnight hour when fleeting memories come home to roost.

"Is this who I am?"

The older I get, the more introspective I get, or is that retrospective?'

"I feel like there's a chick in me trying to escape."

I wonder what they're moaning about right now?

'Funny, I thought a near-death experience would be different, somehow.'

Trilby - 'Oh my poor girl! my poor girl!'

The Sensitive Dude.

"Wonder if there's something wrong with you? Reality is for us all it's true..."

"Did you hear Sadie's show today?"

'Openly sobbing, or non-openly sobbing?'

Late-Onset Epiphany

"I knew it!"

"Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious day when you're ripe and not yet mealy?"

Amy Winehouse

"For goodness sake, stop this daily whining! She's just gone to work, she'll be back tonight! Get a grip!"

"Solitude is so much better if you have someone to share it with."

"Date of birth?" "1989." "In 1989 I couldn't make ice... still can't." "Good lord, she could be my daughter! I'm so #!@* old." "That's the year my wife left me. Now I have a cold and I'm depressed!"

Sooner or later, 'These trying times' become 'The good ol' days'.'

"Pardon, I should have been more specific...is everything all right with THE MEAL?"

PastFuture.

The big life questions that really get us thinking.

"Eve, do you realize that neither you nor I ever had a childhood?"

I'm beginning to regret the hearing aids.

"Why are we here?"

"To tell you the truth, I never thought downward mobility would be so, well, downward."

'It's so beautiful, yet fragile. Safe, yet vulnerable. More precious than any star in the heavens.'

"The thing with tiny kitchens is it's all about stacking, patience and resenting all your previous life choices."

Moral compass 2003