Quotes by : John Lanchester

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

A solicitor had looked up at the sky, swept blue by the wind, and had a sudden sense of religious consolation,....

London was so rich, and also so green, and somehow so detailed: full of stuff that had been made, and....

In all memory there is a degree of fallenness; we are all exiles from our own pasts, just as, on looking....

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.

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

Any flights would be taken business class, since Roger thought that the whole point of having money,....