Leslie Tate Author PoetLeslie Tate

Aphrodite's Children Quotes

‘The world, they felt, was an event worth watching.’  

 

‘Saying made him real.’  

 

‘...to conceal by telling all.’

 

‘When she came, it was arms out to the intermittent sun, moving slowly, stretching, spreading over earth, yellow and warm and gleaming on the cream and white flowers.’

 

‘Diagnosing their problems by extension from himself.’ 

  

‘“You can always tell,” said Paul, “people who do, who don’t.”

 

‘This was him. What they’d better get used to. Not their little boy.’

 

‘More was less: he could still keep them guessing.’       

 

‘And this was what he wanted, full circle on the seafront, himself come round.’

 

‘It was Jay who turned her on...he’d showed the group what he called deep space meditation achieved, he said, like digestion, by not doing anything. “Can anyone do that?” asked Matthew. “Digest themselves?”

 

‘...the stars showed white ─ paper-white and reflective, dotted all over. At the centre of the sky they were clustered into wheels and spirals, at the edge they came in dots, and where the moon had ascended they were barred white and tinted, surrounded by haloes. They made him think of journeys. Forever dancing. Eye-bright and sleepless. Following a star.’