"....teacher whose system of control depended on maintaining sufficient but not excessive boredom."
"...the genteel social Darwinism of the English middle classes always remained implicit."
"...the key to a happy family life was for there not to be a family –or at least, not one living together."
"This was another of our fears: that Life wouldn’t turn out to be like Literature. Look at our parents –were they the stuff of Literature? At best, they might aspire to the condition of onlookers and bystanders, part of a social backdrop against which real, true, important things could happen."
"History is that certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentation."
"They lived in Kent, out on the Orpington line, in one of those suburbs which had stopped concreting over nature at the very last minute, and ever since smugly claimed rural status."
"...there were two sorts of women: those with clear edges to them, and those who implied mystery. And that this was the first thing a man sensed, and the first thing that attracted him, or not. Some men are drawn to one type, some to the other."
"Have you noticed how, when you talk to someone like a solicitor, after a while you stop sounding like yourself and end up sounding like them?"
"Sometimes I think the purpose of life is to reconcile us to its eventual loss by wearing us down, by proving, however long it takes, that life isn’t all it’s cracked up to be."
"....there’s no fool like an old fool"
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