Detachment is what interests me, seeing how people couldn't have been any other way, how they were the product of forces that they had no control over.
Edward St AubynThe whole Melrose series is an attempt to tell the truth, and is based on the idea that there is some salutary or liberating power in telling the truth.
Edward St AubynIt seems people spend the majority of their lives believing they're dying, with the only consolation being that at one point they get to be right.
Edward St Aubyn