Serious Sweet Quotes

“I like cautious people. They are like me. Not that I like me.”
― A.L. Kennedy, Serious Sweet

“And I really shouldn't think about politics, and who should, frankly?
Who should willingly waste their time on that? Politics is just an organised and expensive way of being furious.”
― A.L. Kennedy, Serious Sweet

“There, there, dear, we're sorry that you'll keep on being you. It's rotten, but what are the choices...?”
― A.L. Kennedy, Serious Sweet

“Breathing is supposed to keep you calm, but also it keeps you alive and so you are not calm, because you are alive and being alive is never calm.”
― A.L. Kennedy, Serious Sweet

“You're not insane."
"You're not exactly best placed to judge.”
― A.L. Kennedy, Serious Sweet

“... it's always chairs and waiting - and I had a book with me in my little bag, one about polar explorers, because those bastards had it worse than anyone.”
― A.L. Kennedy, Serious Sweet

“I'm fine."
I'm Fucked-Up Insecure Neurotic and Emotional.
F.I.N.E.”
― A.L. Kennedy, Serious Sweet

“- you have the Hindenburg burning inside you always -”
― A.L. Kennedy, Serious Sweet

“I could give minor insanity as my excuse for perceived wrongdoing... But I don't want to live in a world where concern for others and for the consequences of actions and for safety and reality and ... Well, why not ...? I don't want to live in a world where having a concern for true beauty on a wider and wider scale would be regarded as a manifestation of mental illness.”
― A.L. Kennedy, Serious Sweet

“I'm not, not this monster of the kind we're meant to be - rape threats as idle chatter and demanding every woman should be nude and pretending we have to be scoundrels as a matter of course. That isn't what a man should be.”
― A.L. Kennedy, Serious Sweet

“Do I echo because I am hollow, or because I am a captive animal under stress and reassured by repetitions?”
― A.L. Kennedy, Serious Sweet

“The only contry in the world where there's a majority of women in parliament is Rwanda. Rwanda. That's when women get power, real power - if the men are either dead or in prison.”
― A.L. Kennedy, Serious Sweet

“I've always been a man for details, can't get enough of them. Not a spy, not a bit of it, not really. An observer. Product of an unsentimental education. It's the least you can do - watch.
Watch it all tumbling down like the Wall - Berliner Mauer, the Antifacist Protection Rampart. Never a good sign when your wording tries that hard to fight reality, it suggests the beginning of your tumble. Yes, it does. It always does.
But I'd rather watch beauty.
And is that a denial of reality, or an attempt to embrace it? I think I am too tired to know. I hope I am too tired to know.”
― A.L. Kennedy, Serious Sweet

“She wanted to give people something kind and simple. That wasn't available.
The cheap cake was horrible. The expensive cake tasted of greed - of greedy bakers.
She couldn't win.
Who knew cake was such a bastard?”
― A.L. Kennedy, Serious Sweet

“looked at the better-informed faces passing with that Westminster Expression, the Estate Expression: a certain gravitas, a pinch of visible intelligence, alert attention, and—above all—irritation. Westminster found all that was not Westminster—and much that was—deeply irritating. Here”
― A.L. Kennedy, Serious Sweet