Caroline

“Nobody ever died of a feeling, he would say to himself, not believing a word of it, as he sweated his way through the feeling that he was dying of fear. People died of feelings all the time, once they had gone through the formality of materializing them into bullets and bottles and tumours.”
― Edward St. Aubyn, Mother's Milk

“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

“He might come in useful.'
'Yeah. So's a broken leg if you want to kick yourself in the back of the head.”
― Iain M. Banks, Against a Dark Background

“People think they are individuals because they use the word ''I'' so often.”
― Edward St. Aubyn, Bad News