quotes by 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 (Charlotte Gray)

"Lonely's like any other organism; competitive and resourceful in the struggle to perpetuate itself."
— Sebastian Faulks (Engleby: A Novel)

"Depression - that limp word for the storm of black panic and half-demented malfunction - had over the years worked itself out in Charlotte's life in a curious pattern. Its onset was often imperceptible: like an assiduous housekeeper locking up a rambling mansion, it noiselessly went about and turned off, one by one, the mind's thousand small accesses to pleasure."
— Sebastian Faulks

"Lonely's like any other organism: competitive and resourceful in the struggle to perpetuate itself."
— Sebastian Faulks (Engleby: A Novel)