Brian Peterson

“People never remember happiness with the care that they lavish on preserving every detail of their suffering.”
― Edward St. Aubyn

“Could one have a time-release epiphany, an epiphany without realizing it had happened? Or were they always trumpeted by angels and preceded by temporary blindness, Patrick wondered, as he walked down the corridor in the wrong direction.”
― Edward St. Aubyn, The Patrick Melrose Novels

“The claim that every man kills the thing he loves seemed to him a wild guess compared with the near certainty of a man turning into the thing he hates.”
― Edward St Aubyn

“In my rather brief medical practice,' said David modestly, 'I found that people spend their whole lives imagining they are about to die. Their only consolation is that one day they're right.”
― Edward St. Aubyn, Never Mind