Haley

“Is that a good definition of marking the ageing watershed? That moment when you realize - quite rationally, quite unemotionally - that the world in the not-so-distant future will not contain you: that the trees you planted will continue growing but you will not be there to see them.”
― William Boyd, Any Human Heart

“We keep a journal to entrap that collection of selves that forms us, the individual human being.”
― William Boyd, Any Human Heart

“We talked filth for a pleasant half hour.”
― William Boyd, Any Human Heart

“Every life is both ordinary and extraordinary - it is the respective proportion of those two categories that make that life appear interesting or humdrum.”
― William Boyd, Any Human Heart