49 Quotes by Joe Dunthorne

Once you’ve been through certain experiences, you may as well accept that your life from that point on will be one massive Ferris wheel of the same emotional trauma, relived and recycled, over and over.

That’s a big love letter,” she says, squinting. I know what I’m going to say and for a moment I wish there was a film crew documenting my day-to-day life: “I’ve got a big heart,” I say.

The smoke rolls along the low ceiling and pours up into the night – a reverse waterfall – like when the kettle boils beneath the plate cupboard.

I am one of those servants – butlers usually – who respectfully points out when their master is about to do something stupid: “You should probably only burn the document once the blackmail has been completed, m’ lady.