Sean Hatton

“He has left out details of the barbershop he visited, in which he was shown to a windowless room behind a red curtain, where a short man in the pastor’s same shirt quickly dispensed with his beard (unasked) and the hair on the side of Less’s head, leaving only the blond wisp at the top, and then asked: “Massage?” This turned out to be a series of thumpings and slaps, a general pummeling, as if to extract military secrets, ending with four resounding wallops across the face.”
― Andrew Sean Greer, Less

“Strange how, when you are young, you owe no duty to the future; but when you are old, you owe a duty to the past. To the one thing you can’t change.”
― Julian Barnes, The Only Story

“His experience of life had left him with the belief that getting through the first sixteen years or so was fundamentally a question of damage limitation.”
― Julian Barnes, The Only Story

“Love means never having to say you’re sorry (on the contrary, it frequently means doing just precisely that).”
― Julian Barnes, The Only Story