Bonding Quotes

“It was a state I’d never seen in him before, he was usually such an amiable borderline alcoholic.”
― Mariel Franklin, Bonding

“The French have banned the hijab. What have we banned?’ She paused for effect. ‘Foxhunting.”
― Mariel Franklin, Bonding

“All those years in which nothing had happened – the bad connections that went nowhere, the bad sex, the uncertainty, the gut-wrenching instability – none of that had been under my control. People suffered from a lack of love under wholly arbitrary conditions.”
― Mariel Franklin, Bonding

“We discussed the high camp of the Middle East and she sent me a photo of Samantha on a camel. That’s why you don’t see this kind of camp in Iran. It’s because the British never colonized it. It’s easy to laugh at the trashiness of the Emiratis but it’s all British, we exported it Not so much actual homosexuality, though I’m sure we tried.”
― Mariel Franklin, Bonding

“They always had taglines that were grandiose but also bland, like ‘globalizing breathing’ or ‘exploding words’. It had a kind of poetry to it, I thought, as I made my way down Kingsway, like haiku but without either the heart or the intellect.”
― Mariel Franklin, Bonding