“...nothing more excruciating when you are fighting for your life than to have healthy people round you, squabbling over futilities. Who do… — A.P Death Copy Share Image
“Obscenity is a function of culture - a function in the mathematical sense, I mean, its value changing with that of the… — A.P Culture 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… — A.P Dance 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… — A.P Friendship Copy Share Image
“Shape? Does a fog have shape? Does the twilight? Does the onset of darkness?” — A.P Darkness 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… — A.P Time Copy Share Image
“Enemy number one was now the disease. It had a presence as solid as that of a person - I think all… — A.P Disease 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… — A.P Feminism Copy Share Image
“Years later I saw a film - poignantly sad, and for me unbearably so - about a scientist who had invented a… — A.P Sadness Copy Share Image
“Serena had to cross her legs: in moments of dire amusement her bladder tended to play tricks.” — A.P Amusement 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,… — A.P Brain cells Copy Share Image
“Love is never a problem, he said. Where there is love there is never a problem.” — A.P Love Copy Share Image
“An hour would be enough. An hour with my head on the pillow beside yours, foreheads touching, eyes locked with eyes (just… — A.P Love Copy Share Image
“Love is that as well, I was forgetting: it is taking a huge gamble, staking your all on a single improbable throw,… — A.P Love Copy Share Image
“Sickening, the way the youngest de Vibrey girl, to humour the whim of her kinky old father, is actually riding side-saddle today.… — A.P Feminism Copy Share Image
“Love is about giving, about caring for the other person's welfare. Love is treating someone, in the Kantian sense, never as a… — A.P Affection Copy Share Image
“All eyes turned to look at us' would be a slipshod way of putting it; eyes don't turn anyway, heads do, but… — A.P Attention Copy Share Image
“Even the biggest blaze, though, has to start somewhere, with a tiny spark, or arsonists would be out of business.” — A.P Arsonists Copy Share Image
