205 quotes found
Writer · British · 1975
British writer (born 1975)
“I want to stay still and to keep moving. I want this life and another.”
“Every moment happens twice: inside and outside, and they are two different histories.”
“American houses...' she said, peering over her right shoulder and down the street. 'They always seem to believe that nobody ever loses anything, has lost anything. I find that very sad. Do you know...”
“My mind does not easily accept stately historical processions.”
“Full stories are as rare as honesty.”
“I have known many true connoisseurs, with excellent tastes that range across the humanities and the culinary arts--and they never fail to have a fatal effect on my self-esteem. When I find myself s...”
“And in the past, Archie wondered, was it just that fewer people cheated? Were they more honest, and did they leave their front doors open, did they leave their kids with the neighbors, pay social c...”
“Sacrifice was nine tenths of parenting.”
“Its such a confidence trick, writing a novel. The main person you have to trick into confidence is yourself. This is hard to do alone.”
“But dying is no easy trick. And suicide can't be put on a list of Things To Do in between cleaning the grill pan and leveling the sofa leg with a brick. It is the decision not to do, to un-do; a ki...”
“Sometimes, one wants to have the illusion that one is making ones own life, out of one's own resources.”
“The planet is finished with us, at this point -”
“By Allah, how _thankful_ he is (_yes, madam, one moment, madam_), how _gladdened_ by the thought that Magid, Magid at least, will, in a matter of four hours, be flying east from this place and its ...”
“[..] as midnight inevitably came and went without the horsemen of the apocalypse making an appearance, Clara surprised herself by falling into a melancholy.For ridding oneself of faith is like boil...”
“I AM NOT A WAITER. I HAVE BEEN A STUDENT, A SCIENTIST, A SOLDIER, MY WIFE IS CALLED ALSANA, WE LIVE IN EAST LONDON BUT WE WOULD LIKE TO MOVE NORTH. I AM A MUSLIM BUT ALLAH HAS FORSAKEN ME OR I HAVE...”
“I am the sole author of the dictionary that defines me.”
“Those are my bougainvilleaI got Victoria to plant them today, but I don;t know if they will survive. But Right now they have the appearance of survival, which is almost the same thing.”
“Greeting cards routinely tell us that everybody deserves love. No. Everybody deserves clean water. Not everybody deserves love all of the time.”
“Because choices need time, the fulness of time, time being the horizontal axis of morality - you make a decision and then you wait and see, wait and see.”
“But why think the more reasons there were to sin, the smaller the sin was?”
