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1 " Tully Dawson made himself new to the world, and ripe for the glories of that summer, by showing he was unlike his father. "
― Andrew O'Hagan , Mayflies
2 " You've got to be a prose professional, get out of bed every morning and say, what is pressing on my nerves? You've got to come out of your trap every morning life you are equal to your times. "
― Andrew O'Hagan
3 " You’re doing great,’ she said. ‘You’re in Birmingham .’ Scullion wanted to say this was a contradiction in terms but he couldn’t speak. "
― Andrew O'Hagan , The Illuminations
4 " Always trust strangers, it's the people you know that let you down. "
5 " But she was half in love with chaos... With all her yearning for the ordinary life, she was born to admire outsiders. You could see she felt enlarged by drama and trouble, by the electric pulse of things going wrong, and her vision of the easy life remained in most ways a recurring dream. "
6 " Be near me when my light is low and be near me when my heart is sick... "
7 " They say you know nothing at eighteen. But there are things you know at eighteen that you will never know again. "
8 " The water was cold but it soon warms up when the boys are made of sunshine. "
9 " The summer remembers nothing of the winter and nature is a kind of amnesia. "
10 " I had once asked him if he felt happy hiding in the internet and he said yes, it was his home. On a good day it is the bright field that contains all souls but on a bad day it is the final darkness, where misery is gapingly exposed. "
― Andrew O'Hagan , The Secret Life: Three True Stories
11 " MEMORY IS A KIND of friendship, a friendship with the more necessary parts of oneself. How often do we reach for the past’s genial knowledge to meet the unknowables of the present, asking once again that the anterior world might blossom into life and colour the current day? In this at least I cannot be alone. "
― Andrew O'Hagan , Be Near Me
12 " The thing we know is that humanity has a hundred per cent mortality rate. We all die. But the facts don’t matter – we can’t bear to lose the people we love, and it doesn’t quite register about the billions who die, or even about our own coming deaths. We don’t experience our own death the way we experience the deaths of those we love. "
13 " He knew nothing about policy and taxes or what makes a people, and now, God help him, he was like those kids who think their country is Google. ‘You’re just not going deep enough,’ Luke said. ‘Money has imploded. Religion has gone mad. Privacy is disappearing. The ice-cap is melting and children are starving to death. And you want to sing an old song about national togetherness. "
14 " You’re just America-on-ice. "
15 " The colour red doesn’t actually exist,’ she said. ‘It only exists as an idea in your head. Always remember that. You create it yourself when your imagination meets the light. "
16 " Don’t look back. Go to the car and don’t look back.”“Looking back is all I’ve got,” he said. "
17 " It isn’t always the fittest who survive, but the people who have the information, those who clock the exits. I could find in relentless occupation what I could never find in helplessness: a way through. "
18 " Be near me. The world is rowdy and nothing is certain. Do not stray. None of us was meant to face the day and the night alone, though that is what we do and memory now is a place of fading togetherness. Be near me. True love is what God intends. "
19 " His was a country of fearful men: proud in the talking, paltry in the living, and every promise another lie. "
― Andrew O'Hagan , Our Fathers
20 " We couldn’t complete the world or ourselves. We could only live, and look for small graces, and learn to accept the munificence of change. "
