Sebastian Faulks Quotes

Oh, the sweetness of giving in, of full surrender.

The end-of-summer winds make people restless.

Gradually the feeling wears off, and I feel swamped again by the inexplicable pettiness of being alive.

Why take drugs specifically designed to send you insane?

There is an arch supported by four vast columns. Etched over hundreds and hundreds of yards of stone, furlongs of stone, there are names: "Who are these, these? The men who died in this battle?""No. The lost, the ones they did not find. The others are in the cemeteries.""These are just the ... the unfound." When she could speak again. From the whole war?"The man shook his head. "Just these fields."Elizabeth sat on the steps. "No one told me. My God no one told me,

People wonder why you choose certain subjects to write about. The truth is: you don't really. They choose you

He tried to sleep, but his head was filled with the faces of lunatics, their palsied hands, their shattered eyes.

One thing about London is that when you step out into the night, it swallows you.