Caroline

“Thank goodness there were people who were happy with nothing, thought Julia, so that people like her (and everyone else she had ever met) could have more.”
― Edward St. Aubyn, At Last

“Was this the triumph of self-knowledge: to suffer more lucidly?”
― Edward St. Aubyn, Dunbar

“The trouble with writing fiction is that it has to make sense, whereas real life doesn't.”
― Iain M. Banks

“This was it, the big moment: the corpse of his chief enemy, the ruins of his creator, the body of his dead father; the great weight of all that was unsaid and would never have been said; the pressure to say it now, when there was nobody to hear, and to speak also on his father's behalf, in an act of self-division that might fissure the world and turn his body into a jigsaw puzzle. This was it.”
― Edward St. Aubyn, Bad News