She had had affairs over the years ... but she had never been pregnant, never been a mother or a wife and it was only when she realized that it was too late, that it could never be, that she understoo...
She had been here before. She had never been here before. There was always something just out of sight, just around a corner, something she could never chase down—something that was chasing her down.
She didnt see the point of alcohol, or drugs. People had little enough control over their lives without losing more.
Secrets had the power to kill a marriage
Scars heal, Sylvie said. Even the worst ones.
Sacrifice, by its nature, was predicated on giving, not receiving.
Running wasn’t pointless, of course. Sometimes you did it to try to outrun your thoughts, sometimes you did it to chase them and bring them down. Sometimes you did it so that you didn’t think at all.
Really she was just like everyone else, she wanted to love someone. Even better if they loved you in return. She was considering getting a cat. She didn’t really like cats though. That might be a bit...
Popular versurs literary—a false divide?
Personally, I don’t think it right to make up things about real people—although I suppose there’s an argument for saying that once you’re dead you’re not real any more. But then we have to define what...
One of the remarkable things about Life After Life is the way that this formal experimentation is combined with a consistently involving plot. It is as if the writing of B. S. Johnson had been crossed...
One could lose everything in the blink of an eye, the slip of a foot. One must avoid dark thoughts at all costs.
Of course, I don’t believe in God,’ Dr Kellet said. ‘But I believe in heaven. One has to,
Novels gave you a completely false idea about life, they told lies and they implied there were endings when in reality there were no endings, everything just went on and on and on.
No woman was ever truly safe. It didn’t matter if you were as tough as Sigourney Weaver in Alien Resurrection or Linda Hamilton in Terminator 2 because wherever you went there were men.
No point in thinking, you just have to get on with life. We only have one after all, we should try and do our best. We can never get it right, but we must try.
Look at the Germans, the most cultured and well mannered of people, and yet… Auschwitz, Treblinka, Bergen-Belsen. Given the same set of circumstances it could just as well have been the English,
Lily was a Fabian, a society suffragette who risked nothing for her beliefs.
Life’s random, he said. The best you can do is pick up the pieces.
Juliet and Hartley had long ago abandoned manners with each other. It was refreshing to behave without respect towards someone.