Sebastian Faulks Quotes

“The function of music is to liberate in the soul those feelings which normally we keep locked up in the heart.”

“Inhale and hold the evening in your lungs.”

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

“I suppose that each of us may have a great moment in our life, a month, a week a year, when we are most fully what we are meant to be”

“I know. I was there. I saw the great void in your soul, and you saw mine.”

“Something had been buried that was not yet dead.”

“Memory is the only thing that binds you to earlier selves; for the rest, you become an entirely different being every decade or so, sloughing off the old persona, renewing and moving on. You are not who you were, he told her, nor who you will be.”

“One thing about London is that when you step out into the night, it swallows you.”

“This is not a war, this is a test of how far man can be degraded”

“Our own choices might not be as good as those that are made for us.”

“You put your time where your priority is.”