Beautiful Animals Quotes

“The thing is, one gets tired of one’s own stories. It happens by the time you turn fifty. You’ve heard them all a thousand times, and they get worse with each retelling. Finally, they become nauseating.”
― Lawrence Osborne, Beautiful Animals

“a chain reaction had been set in motion by her ineptitude and cowardice, and it would carry on creating havoc out of sight and mind for as long as that person lived. Such things did not end when one lost interest in them. Their consequences continued even if one didn’t have to live with them oneself. Morality was nothing more than paying attention to the chain reaction while not causing another one.”
― Lawrence Osborne, Beautiful Animals

“There is no ship for you, there is no road. As you’ve wasted your life here, in this small corner, you’ve destroyed it everywhere else in the world. —CAVAFY”
― Lawrence Osborne, Beautiful Animals

“Работата е там, че човек понякога се уморява от собствените си истории. Неизбежно става така, след като навършиш петдесет години. Чувал си ги хиляди пъти и с всеки следващ разказ стават все по-скучни. Накрая започва да ти призлява от тях.”
― Лорънс Озбърн, Beautiful Animals

“they climbed above the beach there to a higher elevation where decayed wooden gates with padlocks announced the phantoms of abandoned houses. Where the shallow water suddenly deepened there were irregular shapes of black opal, like the forms of stationary sharks, and farther out dark green masses that suggested a brooding energy that would always remain withheld from the upper air.”
― Lawrence Osborne, Beautiful Animals