Sebastian Faulks Quotes

Oh, the sweetness of giving in, of full surrender.
Sebastian Faulks
The end-of-summer winds make people restless.
Sebastian Faulks
The best thing is the combined effect of nicotine with alcohol, greater than the sum of the two parts.
Sebastian Faulks
Gradually the feeling wears off, and I feel swamped again by the inexplicable pettiness of being alive.
Sebastian Faulks
Why take drugs specifically designed to send you insane?
Sebastian Faulks
There is an arch supported by four vast columns. Etched over hundreds and hundreds of yards of stone, furlongs of stone, there are names: "Who are these, these? The men who died in this battle?""No. The lost, the ones they did not find. The others are in the cemeteries.""These are just the ... the unfound." When she could speak again. From the whole war?"The man shook his head. "Just these fields."Elizabeth sat on the steps. "No one told me. My God no one told me,
Sebastian Faulks
People wonder why you choose certain subjects to write about. The truth is: you don't really. They choose you
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He tried to sleep, but his head was filled with the faces of lunatics, their palsied hands, their shattered eyes.
Sebastian Faulks
One thing about London is that when you step out into the night, it swallows you.
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I'd never chosen to be alone, but that was the way things had turned out, and I'd grown used to it.
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Have you ever been lonely? No, neither have I. Solitary, yes. Alone, certainly. But lonely means minding about being on your own. I've never minded about it.
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We all operate on different levels of awareness. Half the time I don't know what I'm doing.
Sebastian Faulks
Until she had had children of her own she had not been able to contemplate the death of either of her parents; when the subject had arisen, in conversation or in her own imagining, she had said only: I just don't know what I'd do.
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She was so beautiful I had to move away.
Sebastian Faulks
With no blame there's no shame. A human society can't exist without shame. Shame is like handedness or walking upright. It's a central human attribute. In fact, it's the first human quality ever recorded.''Where?''Genesis, Chapter Three. The covering of nakedness. The acquisition of shame was the first consequence of consciousness, of the speciating moment. Take shame from me and you are calling me pre-human.
Sebastian Faulks