The real failure: that he couldn’t be the sort of father he wanted to be, a man who had transcended his ancestral muddle and offered his children unhaunted love. He had made it out of what he thought...
She had brushed her teeth before vomiting as well, never able to utterly crush the optimistic streak in her nature.
She tried to walk more slowly up the hill. God, her mind was racing, racing in neutral,
She was ghastly and quite mad, but when I grew up I figured her worst punishment was to be herself and I didn't have to do anything more.
This nervous action, which he sometimes performed every few minutes, was like a man crossing himself before an alter- the Drugs; the Cash; and the Holy Ghost of Credit.
Try as one might to live on the edge, thought Patrick, getting into the other lift, there was no point in competing with people who believed what they saw on television.
A little Indian guy being sneered at by monsters of English privilege would normally have unleashed the full weight of Anne’s loyalty to underdogs, but this time it was wiped out by Vijay’s enormous d...
With her curling blond hair and her slender limbs and her beautiful clothes, Inez was alluring in an obvious way, and yet it was easy enough to see that her slightly protruding blue eyes were blank sc...
Anne came downstairs wearing a white cotton dress almost indistinguishable from the white cotton nightgown she had taken off.
Eleanor had watched her mother’s persecution with the same vivid silence as she experienced in the face of her own gradual disintegration tonight.
I find everything boring, therefore I'm fascinating.
If we can’t control our conscious responses, what chance do we have against the influences we haven’t recognized?
Ninety per cent of the drugs were for him and ten per cent for Natasha, a woman who remained an impenetrable mystery to him during the six months they lived together. The only thing he felt certain ab...
No, no, I just meant…’ Patrick felt he was coming from too many directions at once.
People think they are individuals because they use the word ''I'' so often.
There's a blast of palpable stupidity that comes from our host, like opening the door of a sauna. The best way to contradict him is to let him speak.
A celebrity these days is somebody you’ve never heard of,
At the beginning, there had been talk of using some of her money to start a home for alcoholics. In a sense they had succeeded.
It was as if every time she played the ace of spades, it was beaten by a small trump.
Patrick’s own nanny was dead. A friend of his mother’s said she had gone to heaven, but Patrick had been there and knew perfectly well that they had put her in a wooden box and dropped her in a hole....
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