“Everyone was always hungry. The poorer you were, the hungrier you were, and with the hunger came weakness and irritability. It became difficult to think clearly and you needed to think clearly to work out how to survive the next… — Elliot Perlman Copy Share Image
You would love the way he sees you. He uses you as a weapon against himself and not merely because you did — Elliot Perlman Copy Share Image
“...Simon and I by then were practicing to be apart, rehearsing together in the same room and often in the same conversation.” — Elliot Perlman Copy Share Image
“When the words dance privately for you, it is possible to feel not alone.” — Elliot Perlman Copy Share Image
“Madeline, my wife, never used to wear a watch. She does now, I am told. For a long time, in a very inexact way,… — Elliot Perlman Copy Share Image
“…anyway it wasn’t your reading that started this. It was the laugher, the carefree laughter, the three dimensional Coca Cola advertisement that you were,… — Elliot Perlman Copy Share Image
“While he recognized that you were unhappy and unwell, I think he couldn't help but feel that there was some part of you, some… — Elliot Perlman Copy Share Image
“I asked her where she got her toughness. She pretended she didn't understand. Maybe she didn't at first, or maybe she had forgotten that… — Elliot Perlman Copy Share Image
“He uses you as a weapon against himself and not merely because you did. He sits in his car at traffic lights on his… — Elliot Perlman Copy Share Image
At difficult times of my life, books have been an incredible comfort. When I was 12, I changed schools and my parents split up.… — Elliot Perlman Copy Share Image
Why did I start with them? Why do any of us choose one company over another as an employer? The money? At the beginning… — Elliot Perlman Copy Share Image
Listen- all that she was then, all that she is now, those gestures, everything I remember but won't or can't articulate anymore, the perfect… — Elliot Perlman Copy Share Image
It's like the smell of burned toast. You made the toast. You looked forward to it. You even enjoyed making it, but it burned.… — Elliot Perlman Copy Share Image
