54 quotes found
Writer · British · 1967
British writer (born 1967)
“I worry I don't see things the way everyone else does.”
“If love is what is held to make us immortal, hatred is the reverse.”
“Thats writing for you: when you make space for passion, it doesnt turn up.”
“That’s writing for you: when you make space for passion, it doesn’t turn up.”
“Reality might be described as the eternal equipoise of positive and negative.”
“Among other things a marriage is a system of belief, a story, and though it manifests itself in things that are real enough, the impulse that drives it is ultimately mysterious.”
“Es dificilsimo que hasta los ms bondadosos, los que ms te quieren, se tomen tus intereses verdaderamente en serio, porque suelen aconsejarte desde una vida ms segura y ms aislada que la tuya, en la...”
“She was surprised to discover that Paola was thirty-four. 'What have you been doing all this time?' she wanted to ask, but instead she said, 'What brought you to England?''There was a man,' Paola s...”
“The Cunning Little Vixen, in which a fox is caught by a hunter and kept in a farmyard with the other animals. He keeps her because he loves her, despite the fact she is destructive, and there is a ...”
“I can see us there still," he said, "for those were moments so intense that in a way we will be living them always, while other things are completely forgotten. Yet there is no particular story att...”
“The world is constantly evolving, while the family endeavours to stay the same. Updated, refurbished, modernised, but essentially the same. A house in the landscape, both shelter and prison.”
“I didn't appear to need anyone: I could do it all myself. I could do everything. I was both halves: did that mean I was whole?”
“People are least aware of others when demonstrating their own power over them.”
“At times, Melete continued, it had seemed to her that this fact was what had created this behavior. Her sense of reality, in other words, had created something outside itself that mocked and hated ...”
“As it happened I was no longer interested in literature as a form of snobbery or even of self-definition I had no desire to prove that one book was better than another; in fact, if I read somethin...”
“So much is lost, he said, in the shipwreck. What remains are fragments, and if you don't hold on to them the sea will take them too.”
“What she did learn from all the books was something else, something she hadn't really been expecting, which was that the story of loneliness is much longer than the story of life. In the sense of w...”
“I felt that I could swim for miles, out into the ocean: a desire for freedom, an impulse to move, tugged at me as though it were a thread fastened to my chest. It was an impulse I knew well, and I ...”
“This anti-description, for want of a better way of putting it, had made something clear to her by a reverse kind of exposition: while he talked she began to see herself as a shape, an outline, with...”
“She scraped her spoon around the bottom of the honey jar. She was aware, she said, that this was also a cultural malaise, but it had invaded her inner world to the extent that she felt herself summ...”
“Let's just say that drama became something very real to me that day, she said. It ceased to be theoretical, was no longer an internal structure in which she could hide and look out on the wold. In ...”
“I would like, she resumed, to see the world more innocently again, more impersonally, but I have no idea how to achieve this, other than by going somewhere completely unknown where I have no identi...”
