“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
“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
