All Elliot Perlman Quotes
- At difficult times of my life, books have been an incredible comfort. When I was 12, I changed schools and my parents split up. It… Addicted
- Hell is the special pain that dwells in that loss which you yourself have caused Caused
- Charisma will sustain a relationship only in the way that strong coffee first thing in the morning will sustain a career. Career
- When you're younger, you tend to be reckless about trying to find out who you are and what you can do and should do. But… Accepting
- He sits in his car at traffic lights on his way out sometimes and tries to estimate how many times he has sat here, waiting… Anecdote
- You were trying to tell me something and I was trying to tell you something else. We didn't trust each other and that was reason… Each
- There's the ambiguity of human relationships, for instance. A relationship between two people, just like a sequence of words, is ambiguous if it is open… Affect
- You would love the way he sees you. He uses you as a weapon against himself and not merely because you did Inspirational
- What is it about men that make women so lonely? Lonely
- You know you're in love with somebody when you wake up next to them, comfortable despite your breath smelling like the week-old water at the… All
- I hold him to my chest. My love for him is the only unequivocally good thing I know is always there inside of me. It… All
- 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. What… Anymore
- Perhaps people ought to feel with more imagination. Feel
- The peculiar striations that define someone's personality are too numerous to know, no matter how close the observer. A person we think we know can… Become Someone
- 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 words… Able
- You don't need to be seeing someone to be in love with her. You can have lost touch with her, she can have hurt you,… Crazy
- I used to be a child. It came naturally to me. I was an adult for a time, too. That came less naturally. Adult
- [Memory] visits when it is hungry, not when you are. Hungry
- What else is life from the time you were born but a struggle to matter, at least to someone? Born
- Combine a left-leaning upbringing with a family with direct experience of the Holocaust and someone with aspirations to write and I guess, sooner or later,… Aspirations
- I like dialogue in novels. I wanted to avoid laying history on with a trowel - appearing to be lecturing, as opposed to the characters… Appearing