Quotes by : John Lanchester

That was the main thing wrong with Mrs. Kamal. She spent such an extraordinary amount of mental energy....

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....

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

It’s as if people used the invention

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

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.

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

He had a simple maxim for all competitive or adversarial situations: work out what the other party least....