“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 That was depression: being stuck, clinging to an out-of-date version of oneself.”Edward St. Aubyn Source: The Patrick Melrose Novels
“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
“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
“In the eight years since his father’s death, Patrick’s youth had slipped away without being replaced by any signs of maturity, unless the tendency for sadness and exhaustion to eclipse hatred and insanity could be called ‘mature’.”Edward St. Aubyn Some Hope, Chapter 1