Parallel Lines Quotes

“I like his rather belligerent hospitality,’ said Martin. ‘Perhaps it’s infantile of me but everything is so thoroughly planned that the torments of choice disappear.”
― Edward St Aubyn, Parallel Lines: A Novel

“Our concept is sharing,' lisped Sam, 'as a waiter once said to me in a restaurant I never went back to. The food was delicious, but I couldn't get past the "concept". I can just about put up with conceptual art—if I'm caught in a thunderstorm and there's a warm gallery across the street—but conceptual food is out of the question.”
― Edward St. Aubyn, Parallel Lines

“Might have stayed': the emptiest tense of all, not just past but conditional, the breeding ground of yearning and regret and counter-factual speculation.”
― Edward St. Aubyn, Parallel Lines