“Even the biggest blaze, though, has to start somewhere, with a tiny spark, or arsonists would be out of business.” — A.P Copy Share Image
“...nothing more excruciating when you are fighting for your life than to have healthy people round you, squabbling over futilities. Who do you love best, and who most do you want with you? Blithering idiots: it's life itself, can't you see? It's life I love best, and life I want with me. Go hang yourselves, all of you, you're only… — A.P Copy Share
“Obscenity is a function of culture - a function in the mathematical sense, I mean, its value changing with that of the variables on… — A.P Copy Share Image
“Sabine used to maintain that preparation for a dance is comparable to what goes on in the back room of a butcher's shop: the… — A.P Copy Share Image
“I say sister because we were never too alike, too competitive with one another, ever to bond as friends: like the projecting pieces of… — A.P Copy Share Image
“Shape? Does a fog have shape? Does the twilight? Does the onset of darkness?” — A.P Copy Share Image
“(But does time honour things? Sabine would teach me to ask. How? Why? And if it does, ought it to go on doing so?… — A.P Copy Share Image
“Enemy number one was now the disease. It had a presence as solid as that of a person - I think all serious illnesses… — A.P Copy Share Image
“What's that she's fiddling with when she ought to be listening? I do believe it's a pair of tweezers. She's plucking the hairs off her arms. Off her arms, of all places. Not even legs or face, which is bad enough, but arms. Holy shit, what pathetic geisha behaviour - pain in order to please the male; has no one… — A.P Copy Share
“Years later I saw a film - poignantly sad, and for me unbearably so - about a scientist who had invented a kind of total sense recorder, not just video but audio and smellio and touchio and the rest, which he set to play every afternoon in a given place a given time, for as long as the mechanism lasted.… — A.P Copy Share
“Serena had to cross her legs: in moments of dire amusement her bladder tended to play tricks.” — A.P Copy Share Image
“Where is the pain when your pride is wounded? And why do we say that: wounded? There is no gash, no blood, not even… — A.P Copy Share Image
“Love is never a problem, he said. Where there is love there is never a problem.” — A.P Copy Share Image
