Engleby
Sebastian Faulks
Top 10 Best Quotes
“I'd never chosen to be alone, but that was the way things had turned out, and I'd grown used to it.”
“Inhale and hold the evening in your lungs.”
“Have you ever been lonely? No, neither have I. Solitary, yes. Alone, certainly. But lonely means minding about being on your own. I've never minded about it.”
“One thing about London is that when you step out into the night, it swallows you.”
“You put your time where your priority is.”
“The end-of-summer winds make people restless.”
“My direction? Anywhere. Because one is always nearer by not keeping still.”
“This is how most people live: alive, but not conscious; conscious but not aware; aware, but intermittently.”
“And sometimes in life, I imagine, good things do happen. Most of the time, it's the opposite, obviously. But I don't think you should rule out the possibility that just occasionally chance might deal you a good card.”
“Lonely's like any other organism; competitive and resourceful in the struggle to perpetuate itself.”
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