Quotes About Anna Burns

It broke the bounds of credibility, said the news, but lots of things in life break bounds of credibility. Breaking credibility, I was coming to understand, seemed to be what life was about.

also found the situation unworkable. Not just unworkable – ridiculous. Not just ridiculous – perturbing.

He was convinced, I could see, that this time 'round his words would produce quite the opposite effect on me, as in favorable, as in advantageous, especially as I'd had two brothers in the renouncers myself.

Still, I didn't like the implication that I had contracted an incurable beyond the pale.