The Carrier Quotes

“You know how I feel about Occam’s Razor. The simplest answer isn’t usually the right one. Devious and unlikely is everywhere.’ ‘You ought to launch your own theory: Occam’s Beard, you could call it.”
― Sophie Hannah, The Carrier

“I thought to myself, 'No matter what happens from now on, even if my heart ends up in pieces, this makes it all worth it, this moment.”
― Sophie Hannah, The Carrier

“No, thanks,’ said Sam, who had never understood why he often refused drinks he would have liked to accept.”
― Sophie Hannah, The Carrier

“I've been alone with my thoughts for too long; I'm starting to feel unreal.”
― Sophie Hannah, The Carrier

“I’m low-level angry most of the time, never really know why,’ Simon told him. ‘You got the brunt of it. This time.”
― Sophie Hannah, The Carrier

“Wall of lies?’ Proust muttered. ‘Is that the one that borders the orchard of obsession that contains the tree of lunacy?”
― Sophie Hannah, The Carrier

“No ramifications whatsoever. You’re not going to ramificate; you don’t know what it means. You don’t know which of the words I use are real words and which I’m making up”
― Sophie Hannah, The Carrier

“Is Jason intelligent enough to realise that if you describe a thirty-eight-year-old woman as middle-aged, she’s more likely to want to kill you than help you? Because Lauren isn’t.”
― Sophie Hannah, The Carrier

“Oh, God. I can’t do this. I only slightly want to have a baby. I think. I actually don’t know at all.”
― Sophie Hannah, The Carrier

“Life punishes the needy; admit you can't live without something and it's taken away.”
― Sophie Hannah, The Carrier