Cokie

“It’s the hardest addiction of all,’ said Patrick. ‘Forget heroin. Just try giving up irony, that deep-down need to mean two things at once, to be in two places at once, not to be there for the catastrophe of a fixed meaning.”
― Edward St. Aubyn, At Last

“Mind you, I don’t know why people get so fixated on happiness, which always eludes them, when there are so many other invigorating experiences available, like rage, jealousy, disgust, and so forth.” - Some Hope”
― Edward St. Aubyn, Some Hope

“The claim that every man kills the thing he loves seemed to him a wild guess compared with the near certainty of a man turning into the thing he hates.”
― Edward St Aubyn

“He hated happy families with their mutual encouragement, and their demonstrative affection, and the impression they gave of valuing each other more than other people.”
― Edward St. Aubyn, Bad News