Julian Barnes Quote

I used to wonder if it was God's plan that I should be alone for so much of my life. But I found peace. I found happiness within people and the world.

Before you're given what you want, you'll first be tested with what you don't really want.

Let's go invent tomorrow instead of worrying about what happened yesterday.

He was no god, just an artist; and when an artist is a man, he needs a woman to create like a god.

My father, [was] a mid-level phonecompany manager who treated my mother at best like an incompetent employee. At worst? He never beat her, but his pure, inarticulate fury would fill the house for days...

I consider my mom and all my sisters my friends.

It was an emergency!" Seth blurted. "Read my lips - emergency reading - not some demented idea of fun. If I was starving, I would eat asparagus. If somebody held a gun to my head, I would watch a soap...

We have two natures within us, both struggling for mastery. Which one will dominate us? It depends on which one we feed.

Life is a process during which one initially gets less and less dependent, independent, and then more and more dependent.

Arise, my love, let us try to set these ashes on fire again!