176 Quotes by Sebastian Faulks

It’s only after the change is fully formed that you can see what’s happened.

The nicest characters in A Week in December are, in fact, Muslims – and their religious devotion is one of the things that defines them.

And sometimes in life, I imagine, good things do happen. Most of the time, it’s the opposite, obviously. But I don’t think you should rule out the possibility that just occasionally chance might deal you a good card.

I liked slicing through the beige brain when it had been fixed; the texture reminded me of cooked cauliflower. It was wonderful to hold this shrunken organ in your hands, the formaldehyde running down over your wrists, and picture the billion firing synapse that for many years had made the cauliflower believe that it was Fred.

They had seen things no human eyes had looked on before, and they had not turned their gaze away. They were in their own view a formidable group of men. No inferno would now melt them, no storm destroy, because they had seen the worst and they had survived.

Have you ever been lonely? No, neither have I. Solitary, yes. Alone, certainly. But lonely means minding about being on your own. I’ve never minded about it.

Yet on the dusky veranda she had seemed like a force of nature that had somehow sought out the landscape of his longing and moulded itself to each contour.

I’d never chosen to be alone, but that was the way things had turned out, and I’d grown used to it.

Gray looked at him. “If I die, Wraysford, and you are still alive, I want you to take charge of the company.” “Me? Why not Harrington?” “Because you are a mad, cold-hearted devil and that is what we are going to need.