Quotes by : John Lanchester

The white policeman was a man who gave an impression of heaviness. It wasn't that he was fat, but he....

In his experience with women, it was difficult to recover once things began to go wrong--once they had....

The idea of luxury, even the word "luxury," was important to Arabella. Luxury meant something that was....

But the thing which had made him fall for her, fall properly, was the way she seemed so calm and so quiet....

As Confucius says, under some circumstances murder can be forgiven; but unreasonableness never is.

Roger was not personally ambitious he mainly wanted life not to make too many demands on him.

It gave her a sudden sense that it was now her turn to grow old, to find the world changing, sliding....

Humans make their own history, but not under circumstances of their choosing.

In Shahid's view, the best way through difficult times, as through life in general, was just to go along....

Although he too was heading to work, Shahid was glad he wasn't dragging himself off to some office job.....