The House of Lost Souls Quotes

“And writers didn’t need qualifications. They just needed subjects to claim to be writing about.”
― F.G. Cottam, The House of Lost Souls

“And what on earth would be the point of a Devil, my friends, without a God?”
― F.G. Cottam, The House of Lost Souls

“Life became so cheap as to be permanently debased. Faith was destroyed. Now, sensation and novelty are all. If the times we live in were a man, he would be a corpse, a frenzied, ersatz existence galvanised into him only by odd jolts of electricity. What were those lines of Eliot’s? I had not thought death had undone so many.”
― F.G. Cottam, The House of Lost Souls

“the sad, incurious lives lived for the sake of existence alone, without change or improvement or hope.”
― F.G. Cottam, The House of Lost Souls

“Her flat was small, it was true, but they didn’t want the space to be apart.”
― F.G. Cottam, The House of Lost Souls