A Possible Life Quotes

“Sometimes my whole life seems like a dream; occasionally I think that someone else has lived it for me. The events and the sensations, the stories and the things that make me what I am in the eyes of other people, the list of facts that make my life ... They could be mine, they might be yours.”
― Sebastian Faulks, A Possible Life: A Novel in Five Love Stories

“I don't think you ever understand your life - not till it's finished and probably not then either. The more I live the less I seem to understand.”
― Sebastian Faulks, A Possible Life: A Novel in Five Love Stories

“Knowing one was comprised of recycled matter only and that selfhood was a delusion did not take away the aching of the heart.”
― Sebastian Faulks, A Possible Life

“If not just the brain but the quirks that made the individual were composed of recycled matter only, it was hard to be sure where the edges of one such being ended and another person began.”
― Sebastian Faulks, A Possible Life

“And when I die all the memories of my own life will go to the grave with me, God willing, and Dick will never have to look back at them. And his children will never even know what my life was like. They'll know nothing of grinding stones and lying down to sleep in what felt like a coffin and being hungry and ashamed all day and night and being beaten by a teacher who couldn't write himself and being sure you kept your mind so empty that you had no thoughts at all. And that's what I've done for them, that's my gift to them and to all their children ever after, so don't talk to me about being hard.”
― Sebastian Faulks, A Possible Life: A Novel in Five Love Stories

“This intimacy is not necessary; no one is compelling me to open my inmost self and lay it naked, undefended, against that of another – merely for the joy of the communion.”
― Sebastian Faulks, A Possible Life