It's funny, isn't it, Miss Woolf whispered in Ursula's ear, how much German music we listen to. Great beauty transcends all. Perhaps after the war it will heal all too.
It was the enormity of war, she thought, it left you scrabbling for ways to think about it. Bridget
In the half-century of his life, a tick on the Doomsday clock, he had borne witness to the most unbelievable technological advances. He had started off listening to an old Bush radio in the corner of...
In the endgame a pawn can change into a queen.
I'm always so glad,' Sylvie murmured, 'that I don't have to take a turn at being other people.''You're very good at being yourself,' Ursula said, aware that it didn't necessarily sound like a complime...
I'm always so glad, Sylvie murmured, that I don't have to take a turn at being other people.
I wanted her for what she was, but when I got her I wanted her to change.
I don't actually live here, Reggie said.Who does live here then?Ms. MacDonald, except that she doesn't because she's dead. Everyone's dead.I'm not, Jackson said. You're not.
I am mad, I think. I am mad therefore I think. I am mad therefore I think I am.
Human nature favors the tribal. Tribalism engenders violence. It was ever thus and so it will ever be.
How many times would he disappoint you in a day if you were married to him, Ursula wondered?
He wanted to be deafened by the thunder of her engines, he needed to be drained of every thought by the cold, the noise, the equal amounts of boredom and adrenalin. He had believed once that he would...
Happiness, like life itself, was as fragile as a bird’s heartbeat, as fleeting as the bluebells in the wood, but while it lasted, Fox Corner was an Arcadian dream.
Fanning Court. God forbid. Teddy could no longer sit in the chair. He could no longer leave the bed, no longer do anything. He was approaching the end of his twilight, entering into the final darkness...
Dr. Kellet said, it’s a snake with its tail in its mouth. He nodded approvingly and said to Sylvie, It’s a symbol representing the circularity of the universe. Time is a construct, in reality everythi...
Art is anything created by one person and enjoyed by another.
A van drew up in the centre of St. Helen’s Square and disgorged several people dressed as zombies. The zombies proceeded to chase the men who were dressed as condoms. The condom men didn’t seem very s...
I'm a lapsed Quaker. I don't go to meetings any more. But I'm very drawn to Catholicism - all that glitter. I'd love to be a Catholic. I think it would be fantastic - faith, forgiveness, absolution, e...
My father was an autodidact. It wasn't a middle-class house. Shopkeepers are aspirant. He paid for me to go to private school. He was denied an education - he had a horrible childhood. He got a place...
Disengaging from the rat race Jackson