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

“The shock of standing again under the wide pale sky, completely exposed. This must be what the oyster feels when the lemon juice falls.”
― Edward St. Aubyn, The Patrick Melrose Novels

“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.”
― Robert A. Heinlein

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