So what should I be doing? I don’t know. Something. Working. Seeing people. Running a scout troop, or running a club even. Something more than waiting for life to change and keeping your options open....
She would go home and marry a man who owned carpet shops, and she would bear his children, and he would take other women to nightclubs, and she would get old and die and hope for better luck next time...
She regretted the explanation immediately, but that was because she always regretted everything
She began to fear that she would always be greedy, all the time. Nothing ever seemed to fill her up. Nothing ever seemed to touch the sides.
Please stop patronizing those who are reading a book - The Da Vinci Code, maybe- because they are enjoying it. For a start, none of us know what kind of an effort this represents for the individual re...
Not for the first time in my life, and certainly not for the last, a self-righteous gloom had edged out all semblance of logic.
Maybe we all live life at too high a pitch, those of us who absorb emotional things all day, and as a consequence we can never feel merely content: we have to be unhappy, or ecstatically, head-over-he...
Manchester United would have retained the Premiership if they’d won this game – or, of course, if they’d won any of the other games they drew during the course of the season. Or, seeing as one extra p...
Life was about to begin, so Arsenal had to go.
Life isn't, and has never been, a 2-0 home victory after a fish and chip lunch.
L'amore, evidentemente, è antidemocratico come il denaro: si accumula attorno a persone che ne hanno già fin troppo: i sani di mente, i sani nel corpo, gli amabili
Kurkov loves his weltschmerz as much as the next guy--but he doesn't see why weltschmerz shouldn't come bundled up with a narrative that kicks a little bit of ass--the edge of the left cheek, say.
Kau harus hidup dalam gelembungmu sendiri. Kau tidak bisa memaksa masuk ke dalam gelembung milik orang lain, karena dengan begitu, itu tak lagi menjadi gelembung.
It was easy to be nice to an attractive woman over a dinner table. The despair came later, with children and tiredness and the sheer drudgery of marriage and monogamy.
Is there anythingmore adult than sticking with a relationship that’s falling apart in the hope that you can put it right?I’ve never done that in my life.
I can't help but love David at this moment. He's calm when he has every right to be angry with everything and everyone, and as a result I feel, for the first time in a long time, that we are a unit,
Here’s how not to plan a career: (a) split up with girlfriend; (b) junk college; (c) go to work in record shop; (d) stay in record shops for rest of life.
He knew he had only himself to blame; but it was more or less entirely her fault.
He has the personality of a child prodigy, but no discernable talent.
Books are, let's face it, better than everything else.