Edward St. Aubyn: Likeness

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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

Training

“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

Cars , Imagination , Fish

“Thank goodness there were people who were happy with nothing, thought Julia, so that people like her (and everyone else she had ever met), could have more.”

Edward St. Aubyn

At Last, Chapter 7

People , Happiness

“He liked slim books which he could slip into his overcoat pocket and leave there unread for months. What was the point of a book if you couldn’t carry it around with you as a theoretical defence against boredom?”

Edward St. Aubyn

Bad News, Chapter 3

Books

“When she told people how nervous she was about any kind of public appearance, they said incredibly annoying things like, ‘Don’t forget to breathe.’ Now she knew why.”

Edward St. Aubyn

At Last, Chapter 8

People , Appearance , Forgetting

“Unless in fact he had a very dim memory of her and the photograph had blown on the tiny little ember of his connection with his granny, like a faint orange glow in a heap of soft grey ash, and for a moment he really could remember when he had sat on his granny’s lap and smiled at her and patted her wrinkly old face — his mother said he smiled at her and she was really pleased.”

Edward St. Aubyn

At Last, Chapter 10

Smile , Memory

“As he laboured up to his bedsit, a miniature roof conversion with sloping walls on the fifth floor of a narrow Victorian building in Kensington, Patrick seemed to regress through evolutionary history, growing more stooped with each flight, until he was resting his knuckles on the carpet of the top landing, like an early hominid that has not yet learned to stand upright on the grasslands of Africa and only makes rare and nervous expeditions down from the safety of the trees.”

Edward St. Aubyn

At Last, Chapter 14

History , Tree , Learning

“Mind you, I don’t know why people get so fixated on happiness, which always eludes them, when there are so many other invigorating experiences available, like rage, jealousy, disgust, and so forth.”

Edward St. Aubyn

Some Hope, Chapter 7

People , Jealousy , Rage , Happiness

“He marvelled again at the effect of projection: how hostile Henry had seemed to him when Patrick was hostile towards everyone; how considerate he seemed now that Patrick had no argument with him. What would it be like to stop projecting? Was it possible at all?”

Edward St. Aubyn

At Last, Chapter 2

Hostility