The Best of Adam Sharp Quotes

“Lost love belongs in a three-minute song, pullling back feelings from a time when they came unbidden, recalling the infatuation, the walking on sunshine that cannot last and the pain of its loss, whether through parting or the passage of time, reminding us that we are emotional beings”
― Graeme Simsion, The Best of Adam Sharp

“A few times in my life, I have been manipulated by the sexual power of a woman. "Could you help with my assignment?" I'll do it for you. "I don't know why they've given me middle seat." Take mine. "I thought the trains would still be running." Let me drive your home. No promises, no offers, nothing expected in return.”
― Graeme Simsion, The Best of Adam Sharp

“In Hong Kong, I read Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s “Love in the Time of Cholera”, in which the hero must wait until his seventies before being united with his beloved. In a moment of Melancholy, I inscribed my copy: Angelina, I will love you always. Adam and sent it to her, via Jacinta. It was an unhealthy book for me to have read at that time, and to have then inflicted on Angelina. Just wait long enough and somehow the right people will die. The starts will align, we’ll get over ourselves and we’ll be together. And in the meantime, what?”
― Graeme Simsion, The Best of Adam Sharp

“The day might come when I had nothing but memories, and the choice of whether to indulge my romantic side and wallow in them, or my cynical side and reflect on the reliability.”
― Graeme Simsion, The Best of Adam Sharp

“Tegenwoordig haalde ik meer herinneringen uit mijn geheugenbank dan ik erin stopte.
Ooit kwam misschien de dag dat ik niets anders meer had dan mijn herinneringen en moest kiezen of ik de overhand gaf aan mijn romantische kant en me erin zou onderdompelen, of aan mijn cynische kant en zou twijfelen aan hun betrouwbaarheid.”
― Graeme Simsion, The Best of Adam Sharp

“Tegenwoordig haalde ik meer herinneringen uit mijn geheugenbank dan ik erin stopte.”
― Graeme Simsion, The Best of Adam Sharp

“I’d been dubbed Seagull, after a joke that consultants fly in, do a lot of flapping and squawking, shit all over everybody, and fly out.”
― Graeme Simsion, The Best of Adam Sharp: A Novel

“These days I was taking more from my bank of memories than I was putting in.”
― Graeme Simsion, The Best of Adam Sharp: A Novel