“Anna woke with the wonderful feeling bad sleepers have when they know they have slept well. As if they have stolen something and got away with it. At these times the memories of what led up to such deep sleep… — James Meek Copy Share Image
“And you thought: they're used to it. But that was how those who suffered less always thought about those who suffered more, that they… — James Meek Copy Share Image
“She loved herself, and her body’s resistance to all those poisons was the exact measure of how indestructibly young and beautiful she felt she… — James Meek Copy Share Image
“ I wrote my first novel, McFarlane Boils The Sea, under the influence of Kelman and Proust, which is like drinking a cocktail of… — James Meek Copy Share Image
“He'd shot and beaten people because he couldn't talk to them.Violence was the only language nobody could understand. There were no translators.” — James Meek Copy Share Image
“People find different ways of keeping the ones they loved among the living, he said cautiously. Children. Memories. The names of things.” — James Meek Copy Share Image
“The many mysteries boil down to three. There is the kind that can be solved: who planted the bomb? Will the travellers reach their… — James Meek Copy Share Image
“Anna woke with the wonderful feeling bad sleepers have when they know they have slept well. As if they have stolen something and got… — James Meek Copy Share Image
“What Dougie had actually said was You shouldn't get too up your own arse about being a dad. You get a wee man or… — James Meek Copy Share Image
