“ Soon enough the tears came but of course nobody came down to see if she was all right, it was just the slut in the kitchen who'd ruined their lives, getting drunk of neat gin and howling for her lost… Patrick McGrath
“ Various pieces of huge dark furniture constricted the passage, and the place smelled of boiled fish. I was shown into the parlor, where the gloom of that overcast day was filtered through windows curt… Patrick McGrath
“ Perhaps that's the whole point about infidelity, I suggested, not that one has sex but that by doing so one puts at risk someone else's happiness? Patrick McGrath
“ I often wondered how it would be to tramp off into the mountains and keep going until I was exhausted, then simply sink into the snow and fall asleep. Then the wolves could have me.To want to die in t… Patrick McGrath
“ Strange how reluctant I was to acknowledge that control of my fate lay beyond my own conscious will. Habit of a lifetime, I suppose. Patrick McGrath
“ Isolated people, those who live alone, are always conscious of their condition in the homes of families. Patrick McGrath
“ We see nobody clearly. We see only the ghosts of absent others, and mistake for reality the fictions we construct from blueprints drawn up in early childhood. This is the problem. Patrick McGrath
“ Solitude is a terrible thing, for it permits the imagination to picture, in detail, that which perhaps should never be articulated. Patrick McGrath
“ Her mouth was smeared with lipstick and her throat swung bagged and cross-hatched from a wrinkled knob of chin flanked by rouged jowls loosely depending from lumpy cheekbones. Powerful gusts of stale… Patrick McGrath
“ Люблю сырость таких дней, сырость, сумрак и густые серые тучи, потому что лишь в такую погоду чувствую себя в ладу с миром. Patrick McGrath
“ Hugo, she said, in a certain hurt tone that I knew well and enjoyed provoking, you can be most horribly rude when you choose. Why do you choose? Patrick McGrath
“ A tissue of small sounds filled the room, a bird, a clock, a voice from another garden. What we call silence. Patrick McGrath
“ There is something I have learned since being paralyzed, and that is that in the absence of sensory information, Patrick McGrath
“ Le donne romantiche, riflettei: non pensano mai al male che fanno in quella loro forsennata ricerca di esperienze forti. In quella loro infatuazione per la libertà.! Patrick McGrath
“ He wished only to live as a free man upon the fruits of his labor, and grow old in the natural rhythms of the earth; instead of which he was cursed, so he felt, always to be an object of disgust, or h… Patrick McGrath
“ Di solito vogliono che tu tenga la bocca chiusa, a volte pretendono che gridi, e si aspettano che tu sappia la differenza. Era questo che trovava buffo. Patrick McGrath
