“There was only one thing left to do: that authentic-sounding flush with which every junkie leaves a bathroom, hoping to deceive the audience that crowds his imagination.”
― The Complete Patrick Melrose Novels
― The Complete Patrick Melrose Novels
“a simple machine needing no fuel and little maintenance, one that steadily sequesters carbon, enriches the soil, cools the ground, scrubs the air, and scales easily to any size. A tech that copies itself and even drops food for free. A device so beautiful it’s the stuff of poems.”
― The Overstory
― The Overstory
“Once you locked into language, all you could do was shuffle the greasy pack of a few thousand words that millions of people had used before.”
― The Complete Patrick Melrose Novels
― The Complete Patrick Melrose Novels
“The question filled Patrick with the horror which assailed him when he was asked to consider another person’s feelings. How was Debbie? How the fuck should he know? It was hard enough to rescue himself from the avalanche of his own feelings, without allowing the gloomy St Bernard of his attention to wander into other fields.”
― The Complete Patrick Melrose Novels
― The Complete Patrick Melrose Novels
“Only in a country free from the funnelling of primogeniture and the levelling of égalité could the fifth generation of a family still be receiving parcels of wealth from a fortune that had essentially been made in the 1830s.”
― The Complete Patrick Melrose Novels
― The Complete Patrick Melrose Novels
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