Caroline

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

“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

“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

“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