104 Quotes by Edward St Aubyn

All she remembered was that Caligula had planned to torture his wife to find out why he was so devoted to her. What was David’s excuse, she wondered.

Most people wait for their parents to die with a mixture of tremendous sadness and plans for a new swimming pool.

The drive rose sharply to the left of the steps to a circle of flat ground where her maroon Buick was parked under an umbrella pine. It looked preposterous, stretched out on its white-walled tyres against the terraced vines and olive groves behind it, but to Eleanor her car was like a consulate in a strange city, and she moved towards it with the urgency of a robbed tourist.

I find everything boring, therefore I’m fascinating.

The Park’s nice,′ his father conceded, ’but the rest of the country is just people in huge cars wondering what to eat next.

The Booker 2011 is of no more interest to me than the world heavyweight championship, which I’m not going to win either. It’s irrelevant.

Something had happened and he, like almost everyone else, had got used to the habit of life. Perhaps that’s all life was: a habit that resisted the adventure of death.

Presumably those who enjoyed inflicting cruelty could hardly believe their luck and set about popularizing the superstition that their victims could only achieve peace of mind by forgiving them.’ ‘You.

Either I wake up in the Grey Zone,’ he whispered, ’and I’ve forgotten how to breathe, and my feet are so far away I’m not sure I can afford the air fare;.