Sebastian Faulks Quotes

I suppose that each of us may have a great moment in our life, a month, a week a year, when we are most fully what we are meant to be

You can't recall someone whose name has worn away.

Until we can navigate in time, I'm not sure that we can prove that what happened is real.

He didn’t ask himself if she was beautiful, because the physical effect of her presence made the question insignificant.

We're not really conscious of what we're doing most of the time.

All reality about me now appeared to be in tatters, taken down and reduced to the civil war of its particles. I held on very, very tight indeed.

How grand, to be a Doctor of whatever and to weigh up and decide people's future.

Grief is a peculiar emotion.

Currents of desire and excitement that she had not known or thought about for years now flooded in her. She wanted him to bring alive what she had buried, and to demean, destroy, her fabricated self.

People wonder why you choose certain subjects to write about. The truth is: you don't really. They choose you

He tried to sleep, but his head was filled with the faces of lunatics, their palsied hands, their shattered eyes.

She was so beautiful I had to move away.