“There comes a point in life where each one of us who survives begins to feel like a ghost that has forgotten to die at the right time, and certainly most of us were more amusing when we were young. It seems that age folds the heart in on itself. Some of us walk detached, dreaming on the past, and… — Louis de Bernières Copy Share
“Love is a temporary madness, it erupts like volcanoes and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision.… — Louis De Bernieres Copy Share Image
When you have children it completely shifts your focus; they become the most passionate love of your life. — Louis de Bernieres Copy Share Image
“...every man needs an obsessio in order to enjoy life, and it was so much the better if that obsession was constructive.” — Louis de Bernières Copy Share Image
“He read his own obituary and an editorial lamenting his demise and praising his fortitude and immediately began to think up witty… — Louis de Bernières Copy Share Image
Family law is institutionally anti-male. I've been lobbying MPs, and I'm not going to give up campaigning for equality until I get equality. — Louis de Bernieres Copy Share Image
...but then the general trouble with ignorance is always that the ignorant person has no idea that that's what they are. You can be ignorant and stupid and go through your whole life without ever encountering any evidence against the hypothesis that you're a genius. — Louis de Bernieres Copy Share
Did you know that childhood is the only time in our lives when insanity is not only permitted to us, but expected? — Louis de Bernieres Copy Share Image
God is an oppressor, He is incapable of human sympathy; behind a smiling face He hides an evil heart. — Louis de Bernieres Copy Share Image
Your lips are like sugar And your cheeks an apple Your breasts are paradise And your body a lily. O, to kiss the sugar… — Louis de Bernieres Copy Share Image
When you fall in love, it is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake, and then it subsides. And when it subsides, you… — Louis de Bernieres Copy Share Image
The De Bernieres were very military. I broke the military tradition but I was terribly proud of my father being a soldier. — Louis de Bernieres Copy Share Image
We should care for each other more than we care for ideas, or else we will end up killing each other. — Louis de Bernieres Copy Share Image
“Pelagia put her hands on her hips, taking advantage of the superiority implicit in the fact that she was standing and he lying down.” — Louis de Bernières Copy Share Image
