“If you were madly in love, you’d want me to win,’ said Katherine. “‘I’m not sure that’s true,’ said Sam. ‘I think… — Edward St. Aubyn Love Copy Share Image
“Was he, after all, really a bad man doing a brilliant impersonation of an idiot? It was hard to tell. The connections… — Edward St. Aubyn Bad man Copy Share Image
“If anything should take place behind closed doors, it was cruelty and betrayal.” — Edward St. Aubyn Behind closed doors Copy Share Image
“But then neither revenge nor forgiveness change what happened. They’re sideshows, of which forgiveness is the less attractive because it represents a… — Edward St. Aubyn Change Copy Share Image
“Old enough to remember the arrival of 'Have a nice day', Patrick could only look with alarm on the hyperinflation of 'Have… — Edward St. Aubyn America Copy Share Image
“People never remember happiness with the care that they lavish on preserving every detail of their suffering.” — Edward St. Aubyn Happiness Copy Share Image
“The Queen was saying only the other day that London property prices are so high that she doesn’t know how she’d cope… — Edward St. Aubyn Buckingham palace Copy Share Image
“Nobody ever died of a feeling, he would say to himself, not believing a word of it, as he sweated his way… — Edward St. Aubyn Death Copy Share Image
“An editor sleeping with his writer was not as bad as a psychoanalyst sleeping with his patient, or even a professor sleeping… — Edward St. Aubyn Editor Copy Share Image
“..."the waiting-room atmosphere in which death was the delayed train...” — Edward St. Aubyn Death Copy Share Image
“An image flashed across her mind of two rams flinging their heads against each other on a rocky mountainside. What did the… — Edward St. Aubyn Discussing Copy Share Image
“But that, after all, was the point of romantic folly. If it hadn’t all gone horribly wrong, it wouldn’t have been the… — Edward St. Aubyn Love Copy Share Image
“Try as one might to live on the edge, thought Patrick, getting into the other lift, there was no point in competing… — Edward St. Aubyn Copy Share Image
“He had only just made the Elysian deadline; hanging onto the typescript until the last moment in case there was something still… — Edward St. Aubyn Art Copy Share Image
“The mess that's emerging...at least reflects the truth of my experience, the fact that every contemplation is interrupted, and that every interruption… — Edward St. Aubyn Meditation Copy Share Image
“After less than a year together they now slept in separate rooms because Victor's snoring, and nothing else about him, kept her… — Edward St. Aubyn Awake at night Copy Share Image
“There could be no real dialogue between those who still thought that time was on their side and those who realized that… — Edward St. Aubyn Children Copy Share Image
“Why was he in this state? Or perhaps the question was why had he not always been in this state? Why had… — Edward St. Aubyn Distress Copy Share Image
“The shock of standing again under the wide pale sky, completely exposed. This must be what the oyster feels when the lemon… — Edward St. Aubyn Lemon juice Copy Share Image
“Could one have a time-release epiphany, an epiphany without realizing it had happened? Or were they always trumpeted by angels and preceded… — Edward St. Aubyn Wrong direction Copy Share Image
“In the Dodge City of romantic love, crowded with betrayal, abandonment and rejection, it was better to fire first than to take… — Edward St. Aubyn Love Copy Share Image
“Simplification was dangerous and would later take its revenge. Only when he could hold in balance his hatred and his stunted love,… — Edward St. Aubyn Love Copy Share Image
“He was just one of those Englishmen who was always saying silly things to sound less pompous, and pompous things to sound… — Edward St. Aubyn Englishmen Copy Share Image
“Thanks for putting that in terms I can easily grasp,’ said Malcolm, without showing the patronizing bitch the slightest sign of irony.” — Edward St. Aubyn Copy Share Image
