I run to death, and death meets me as fast, And all my pleasures are like yesterday.
Havisham.
And who thought it was a good idea to rent bicycles to Italian adolescent language students? If hell did exist, which Jackson was sure it did, it would be governed by a committee of fifteen-year-old I...
Life is a very orderly thing, but in fiction there is a huge liberation and freedom. I can do what I like. There's nothing that says I can't write a page of full stops. There is no 'should' involved,...
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...
I think about death a lot, I really do, because I can't believe I won't exist. It's the ego isn't it? I feel that I should retreat into a better form of Zen Buddhism than this kind of ego-dominated th...
…she was just like everyone else, she wanted to love someone. Even better if they loved you in return.
You must never believe everything they say about a person. Generally speaking, most of it will be lies, half-truths at best.
What if we had a chance to do it again and again, until we finally did get it right? Wouldn't that be wonderful?
Time isn’t circular, she said to Dr. Kellet. It’s like a… palimpsest.
They said love made you strong, but in Louise's opinion it made you weak. It corkscrewed into your heart and you couldn't get it out again, not without ripping your heart to pieces.
The aircraft found the ground before Teddy did and he watched as it exploded in a glittery starburst of light. He would live, he realized. There would be an afterward after all. He gave thanks to whic...
She was wearing an aggressive three-piece outfit that was probably very expensive but had the kind of pattern you would get if you cut up the flags of several obscure countries and then gave them to a...
Powerful men needed their women to be unchallenging, the home should not be an arena for intellectual debate.
Perhaps sex was something you had to learn and then stick at until you were good at it, like hockey or the piano. But an initial lesson would be helpful.
Lily was a Fabian, a society suffragette who risked nothing
I am mad, I think. I am mad therefore I think. I am mad therefore I think I am.
I always thought the girl in that picture had the look of a frog about her, Nancy said, thinking, I look enigmatic because I’m dying. Isn’t
How many times would he disappoint you in a day if you were married to him, Ursula wondered?
Hindsight’s a wonderful thing,’ Klara said. ‘If we all had it there would be no history to write about.’ She