My Other Life Quotes

“Drunk people, loud people, obvious and angry people, people stammering and stumbling, spilling drinks and scarfing small burned sausages and cheese cubes on toothpicks. They had surrendered all power and direction, they they were yelling and gasping. They strengthened me. I did not want to be that way. I stood calmer, observing them.”
― Paul Theroux, My Other Life: A Wry and Deeply Moving Literary Novel of Marriage, Affairs, and Life Across Continents

“Before I left the house I put my head into the boys' bedroom. The room was cool but the children seemed to radiate warmth - their glow was in the air - and this warmth from such a small bed I associated with their good hearts. They still smelled soapily of their baths, and I kissed their warm cheeks and whispered good night. What is it in darkness that makes us whisper?”
― Paul Theroux, My Other Life: A Wry and Deeply Moving Literary Novel of Marriage, Affairs, and Life Across Continents

“God’s grace is like a weather system, I thought: sunny, or cloudy, sometimes stormy, or an eerie emptiness that might be a prelude to anything, an uncertainty that tests faith.”
― Paul Theroux, My Other Life: A Wry and Deeply Moving Literary Novel of Marriage, Affairs, and Life Across Continents

“Одиночество способно заставить человека думать, будто он что-то теряет. Будто не живет. Обыкновенная, в сущности, жадность.”
― Paul Theroux, My Other Life: A Wry and Deeply Moving Literary Novel of Marriage, Affairs, and Life Across Continents

“Sometimes I miss Boston', I said. It was a timid confession. I missed it every day - its space, its familiar streets and smells. I missed the laughter, I missed the feel of American money which was like the feel of flesh. Reality for me was the past, and it was elsewhere. This - London - was like a role I had been assigned to play, and I was still yet unsure of my lines.”
― Paul Theroux, My Other Life: A Wry and Deeply Moving Literary Novel of Marriage, Affairs, and Life Across Continents