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“Without speech, thoughts plough on like a train without tracks, buckling, crashing, ripping everything apart.”

Edward St. Aubyn

At Last, Chapter 13

“Everything was usual. That was depression: being stuck, clinging to an out-of-date version of oneself.”

Edward St. Aubyn

Source: The Patrick Melrose Novels

“There could be no negotiation between people who thought that cocaine was a vaguely naughty and salacious drug and the intravenous addict who know that it was an opportunity to experience the arctic landscape of pure terror.”

Edward St. Aubyn

Bad News, Chapter 4

“Aren’t people funny? I don’t find where one sits at dinner fascinating at all,’ lied the Princess.”

Edward St. Aubyn

Some Hope, Chapter 8

“Were the ironies of taxation any better: raising money for schools and hospitals and roads and bridges, and spending it on blowing up schools and hospitals and roads and bridges in self-defeating wars?”

Edward St. Aubyn

At Last, Chapter 6

“Men used to tell me how they used butter for sex, now they tell me how they’ve eliminated it from their diet.”

Edward St. Aubyn

Some Hope, Chapter 9

“Above all, he wanted to stop being a child without using the cheap disguise of becoming a parent.”

Edward St. Aubyn

Some Hope, Chapter 1

“How nauseating, thought Nicholas, a Jew being sentimental on behalf of a Negro: you lucky fellows, you’ve got plenty o’ nuthin’, whereas we’re weighted down with all this international capital and these wretched Broadway musical hits.”

Edward St. Aubyn

At Last, Chapter 7

“Mrs Hickmann was inclined to forgive Patrick the apparent purposelessness of his life and the sinister pallor of his complexion, when she considered that he has an income of one hundred thousand pounds a year, and came from a family which, although it had done nothing since, had seen the Norman invasion from the winning side.”

Edward St. Aubyn

Bad News, Chapter 1

“Patrick imagined Kay’s father sunk in the back of the car, his eyes glazed over with exhaustion and his lungs, like torn fishing nets, trawling vainly for air.”

Edward St. Aubyn

Bad News, Chapter 1

“The tragedy was that five or perhaps ten years of decent five-day-a-week analysis could have mitigated the problem significantly.”

Edward St. Aubyn

At Last, Chapter 7

“It was virtually impossible to think of a sentence that made a positive use of that dreadful word ‘enough’, let alone one that started raving about ‘nothing’.”

Edward St. Aubyn

At Last, Chapter 7

“Gothic script seemed to warp every letter that passed through the door of the funeral parlour, as if death were a German village.”

Edward St. Aubyn

At Last, Chapter 3

“What is a strain is being forced into the lobster pot of good behaviour while being forced to sing its praises.”

Edward St. Aubyn

Some Hope, Chapter 1

“More./What for? was a rhyme that deserved to be made more often.”

Edward St. Aubyn

At Last, Chapter 6

“Looks didn’t last forever and she wasn’t ready for religion yet. Money was kind of a good compromise, staked up somewhere between cosmetics and eternity.”

Edward St. Aubyn

Some Hope, Chapter 7