Sebastian Faulks citáty

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

Sebastian Faulks kniha Birdsong

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

Sebastian Faulks kniha Engleby

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

Sebastian Faulks kniha Birdsong

“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.”

Sebastian Faulks kniha Engleby

“Inhale and hold the evening in your lungs.”

Sebastian Faulks kniha Engleby

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

Sebastian Faulks kniha Birdsong

“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”

Sebastian Faulks

“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.”

Sebastian Faulks kniha Charlotte Gray

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

Sebastian Faulks kniha Engleby

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

Sebastian Faulks kniha Birdsong

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

Sebastian Faulks kniha Birdsong

“You put your time where your priority is.”

Sebastian Faulks kniha Engleby