Cokie

“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

“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

“People never remember happiness with the care that they lavish on preserving every detail of their suffering.”
― Edward St. Aubyn

“How could he think his way out of the problem when the problem was the way he thought...”
― Edward St. Aubyn, Bad News