Quotes from Sebastian Faulks, Engleby

That sense of happiness just out beyond my reach - I'm not sure I'd grasped that exactly, but I'd got something close to it, contentment maybe, or at least a functioning routine with regular rewards.

The thought of all that happiness was hard to bear. What's the point of happiness when all it does is throw the facts of dying into clear relief?

You put your time where your priority is.

We're not really conscious of what we're doing most of the time.

Until we can navigate in time, I'm not sure that we can prove that what happened is real.

I'd never chosen to be alone, but that was the way things had turned out, and I'd grown used to it.

I breathed and breathed and did feel some calmness enter in, though it was, as always, shot with a sense of loss. Loss and fear.