Full Circle Quotes.

1. "Night falls over Machu Picchu to the sound of Abba's 'Dancing Queen'."
- Michael Palin, Full Circle

2. "Straight people get married so that they can have sex. Gay men have sex so that they can get friends."
- Michael Thomas Ford, Full Circle

3. "I've heard it argued that men aren't physically wired to be with only one person. We have a built-in biological need to scatter our seed as far and as wide as possible. Something about survival of our gene strain. It doesn't matter if you're gay or straight, they say, you just can't help yourself. Perhaps not. If left to my own devices, though, I'd also eat Ben & Jerry's brownie batter ice cream until I weighed six hundred pounds, but somehow I manage to stop myself when my pants start to get a little tight around the middle. But to each his own. And if you're going to do something that might piss off your partner, you might as well have science on your side."
- Michael Thomas Ford, Full Circle

4. "If left to my own devices, though, I'd also eat Ben & Jerry's brownie batter ice cream until I weighed six hundred pounds, but somehow I manage to stop myself when my pants start to get a little tight around the middle. But to each his own. And if you're going to do something that might piss off your partner, you might as well have science on your side."
- Michael Thomas Ford, Full Circle

5. "Everything is fine and bright. Day must follow every night. My power keeps me safe from harm. The Goddess holds me in her arms."
- Cate Tiernan, Full Circle

6. "I felt an overwhelming gratitude in my life right now and wanted a chance to acknowledge it. I felt that any thanks given to any god all went to the same place, anyway, no matter what religion you were centered in."
- Cate Tiernan, Full Circle

7. "We are all the product of our past and have to live with our memories and personality they cannot be erased."
- Jane Hersey, Full Circle

8. "Marginalised and abused children are often overlooked even today, and risk becoming marginalised and abused adults who may never receive acknowledgment or respect for the immense physical and emotional burden they carry from childhood or indeed have their full potential realised."
- Jane Hersey, Full Circle

9. "As I grew into womanhood my confusion at the world became more apparent. I was taking comfort in behaviours that were familiar, not bathing, wearing multiple layers of clothes and, like my mother, I was bingeing on food. Of course I was still very much a lonely unsupported child myself when I got pregnant - one who had never been nurtured or mothered and as such I struggled with the responsibilities of parenthood."
- Jane Hersey, Full Circle