Quotes from Michel Faber

There can be moments in a person's life," he suggested, "when grief over the loss of a loved one is stronger than faith.

Una vez fuera del coche, se quedó dudando antes de cerrar la puerta, mientras intentaba encontrar unas palabras apropiadas que decirle. -Y usted es...-Respiró hondo, cogiendo aire-.Es... preciosa - dijo por fin con una sonrisa de oreja a oreja. Isserley le devolvió la sonrisa y, de pronto, se sintió totalmente agotada. -Hasta pronto-le dijo.

how can one sleep while dancing at the edge of waves?

There is no God.

Someone at work said to me this morning, "Where is God in all this?" I didn't rise to the bait. I can never understand why people ask that question. The real question for the bystanders of tragedy is "Where are WE in all this?" I've always tried to come up with answers to that challenge. I don't know if I can at the moment. Pray for me.

You'll die, you'll die, I'll lose you. You'll go weird and distant and then one day you'll just disappear." She was weeping now. "I won't. I promise.

El pasado se iba alejando como un paisaje que se va reduciendo poco a poco hasta convertirse en un punto en el espejo retrovisor mientras, delante de ella, a través del parabrisas, brillaba un futuro que reclamaba toda su atención.

Sentiments look different when they're in cold hard print—the coldest, hardest print imaginable.

And you know what people immediately start looking for, five minutes after they arrive someplace new? You know what's on their minds? I'll tell you: How are they gonna get laid, and where are they gonna find some mind-altering substances.

Hey, you'll feel better soon. It's all perceptual. Chemical, even. Feeling down, feeling up, it's a cycle. You wake up one morning and the whole thing looks different. Trust me.

You're not losing me. I'm just going away for a while. I'll be Ã¢â'¬Â¦

Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Ä°nsanlar?n ÅŸu anda ellerinde olana, ilerde ellerine geçeceklere göre daha az ilgi gösterdiÄŸi zamanlard? - sahip olduklarin?, modas? geçmiÅŸ ve istenmeyen k?lacak ÅŸeylerin özlemini çektikleri zamanlard?.

There are times of our lives when we feel indestructible even though quite a lot of things are going wrong

the sense that they were not on the same page—that they needed different things at this crucial time—entered the car like a discomfiting presence.

hope is one of the strongest things in the universe. Empires fall, civilizations vanish into dust, but hope always comes back, pushing up through the ashes, growing from seeds that are invisible and invincible.

To everything there is a season. There is a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to plant seeds, and a time to reap.

It burns in her mind, branded there by Mrs Castaway: Wicked is what we can't help being, little one. The word was invented to describe us. Men love to wallow in sin; we are the sin they wallow in.

La educación es cebar al cordero antes de matarlo.

It's higher consciousness that causes all our griefs and tortures, don't you think?

But there were some questions that one must not ask of God. There were some uncertainties one must face alone.

Someone at work said to me this morning, "Where is God in all this?" I didn't rise to the bait. I can never understand why people ask that question. The real question for the bystanders of tragedy is "Where are WE in all this?

There was only so much calamitous change you could hear about, events that rewrote what you thought was general knowledge, before your brain stopped digesting and you clung on to older realities.

His greatest fear, as he dissolved into the dark, was that he would never see other humans the same way again.