“..."the waiting-room atmosphere in which death was the delayed train...” — Edward St. Aubyn Death Copy Share Image
“Was this the triumph of self-knowledge: to suffer more lucidly?” — Edward St. Aubyn Clarity Copy Share Image
“At the beginning, there had been talk of using some of her money to start a home for alcoholics. In a sense… — Edward St. Aubyn Alcoholics Copy Share Image
“The Park's nice,' his father conceded, 'but the rest of the country is just people in huge cars wondering what to eat… — Edward St. Aubyn Americans 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
“If anything should take place behind closed doors, it was cruelty and betrayal.” — Edward St. Aubyn Behind closed doors 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 Folly Copy Share Image
“Is there ever anything to get unduly worried about,' Peter couldn't help asking, 'when there are so many things to worry about… — Edward St. Aubyn Copy Share Image
“In England, art was much less likely to be mentioned in polite society than sexual perversions or methods of torture.” — Edward St. Aubyn Art Copy Share Image
“How could he think his way out of the problem when the problem was the way he thought...” — Edward St. Aubyn Problem solving 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
“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 Competing 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 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 Copy Share Image
“With her curling blond hair and her slender limbs and her beautiful clothes, Inez was alluring in an obvious way, and yet… — Edward St. Aubyn Beauty Copy Share Image
“Personally I think that competition should be encouraged in war and sport and business, but that it makes no sense in the… — Edward St. Aubyn Art Copy Share Image
“In my rather brief medical practice,' said David modestly, 'I found that people spend their whole lives imagining they are about to… — Edward St. Aubyn Death Copy Share Image
“Above all, she was a baby, not a 'big baby' like so many adults, but a small baby perfectly preserved in the… — Edward St. Aubyn Money 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 Contemplation Copy Share Image
“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 Egoism 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
“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
“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 Copy Share Image
“That was the wonderful thing about historical novels, one met so many famous people. It was like reading a very old copy… — Edward St. Aubyn Books 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 Patronizing Copy Share Image
“As Anne watched her, she could not help thinking of the age-old question every woman asks herself at some time or other:… — Edward St. Aubyn 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 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 Copy Share Image
“It was never quite clear to Eleanor why the English thought it was so distinguished to have done nothing for a long… — Edward St. Aubyn Copy Share Image
“We are entering the Dark Ages, my friend, but this time there will be lots of neon, and screen savers, and street… — Edward St. Aubyn Dark ages Copy Share Image
“Mind you, I don’t know why people get so fixated on happiness, which always eludes them, when there are so many other… — Edward St. Aubyn Anger 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
“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 Epiphany Copy Share Image
“I'll let you in on a little secret, Garry: everything is history. By the time you notice it, it's already happened. That… — Edward St. Aubyn Cognition Copy Share Image
“Just as a novelist may sometimes wonder why he invents characters who do not exist and makes them do things which do… — Edward St. Aubyn Philosopher Copy Share Image
“Classically, the patient went into psychotherapy because she was neurotic from the suppression of her perverse desires, now she goes into psychotherapy… — Edward St. Aubyn Patience Copy Share Image
“There seemed to be no one in a position of power, from the Vatican to Wall Street, from Parliament to Scotland Yard… — Edward St. Aubyn Abuse 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
