Michel Faber Quotes

A single day spent doing things which fail to nourish the soul is a day stolen, mutilated, and discarded in the gutter of destiny.

Reassurance is such a sad, mad thing. Deep inside, everyone knows the truth.

The world changes too fast. You take your eyes off something that's always been there, and the next minute it's just a memory.

Participating in Society in not a thing one can do naturally; one has to rehearse for it.

Most true things are kind of corny, don’t you think? But we make them more sophisticated out of sheer embarrassment.

Nowadays, her life is more like a newspaper: aimless, up-to-date and full of meaningless events

History indulges strange whims in the way it dresses its women.

I am a fallen woman, but I assure you: I did not fall. I was pushed.

Watch your step. Keep your wits about you; you will need them.

Most distracting of all, though, was not the threat of danger but the allure of beauty.

These days, the bigger the company, the less you can figure out what it does.

'A Christmas Carol' is an extravagantly symbolic thing - as rich in symbols as Christmas pudding is rich in raisins.

Anyway, when sophisticated technology fails, primitive technology steps in to do the job.

What do you expect? This place is one big anti-climax.

Being apart was wrong. Simply lying side by side did more for a relationship than words. A warm bed, a nest of animal intimacy. Words could be misunderstood, whereas loving companionship bred trust.

The past was dwindling, like something shrinking to a speck in the rear-view mirror, and the future was shining through the windscreen, demanding her full attention.

Well, here we are."Sometimes a statement of the bloody obvious was the only appropriate way forward. As if to give life ceremonious permission to proceed.

Proof, once again, that reality was not objective, but always waiting to be reshaped and redefined by one's attitude.