Gareth Rubin > Quotes

“It was the wrong house for the Tooke family. It was see-through, allowing everyone to look in, while the people who lived there did their best to hide their lives away.”
― Gareth Rubin, The Turnglass

“A teacher who had welcomed the arrival of Socialism with open arms, perhaps, only to find his syllabus restricted and his students staring at him as a relic to be eased out and forgotten. After”
― Gareth Rubin, Liberation Square

“Such a grubby little country we had become. Socialism meant a minister and the wife of a GP haggling over the price of a box of medicines.”
― Gareth Rubin, Liberation Square

“The Communists had told us from the beginning that everything would soon be political, but we hadn’t fully understood them. We had thought it meant that the structures of society would be moulded to serve the public. We were – I was – beginning to understand that it meant that they would be bent to serve the requirements of politicians.”
― Gareth Rubin, Liberation Square

“Darling, I’ve met real fanatics, and they don’t look like fanatics: their eyes don’t swivel or stand out on stalks; they just look like middle managers in off-the-peg suits.”
― Gareth Rubin, Liberation Square

“It struck me that three days ago Nick had been in NatSec’s cells; now he was planning to join the Party. All of our memories were becoming shorter.”
― Gareth Rubin, Liberation Square

“These tales are intertwined and parasitic. Beguiling and, I think, a little strange too.”
― Gareth Rubin, The Turnglass