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Never Mind (Patrick Melrose, #1) QUOTES

Never Mind (Patrick Melrose, #1) QUOTES

1 " At the beginning, there had been talk of using some of her money to start a home for alcoholics. In a sense they had succeeded. "

― Edward St. Aubyn , Never Mind (Patrick Melrose, #1)

2 " In my rather brief medical practice,' said David modestly, 'I found that people spend their whole lives imagining they are about to die. Their only consolation is that one day they're right. "

― Edward St. Aubyn , Never Mind (Patrick Melrose, #1)

3 " After less than a year together they now slept in separate rooms because Victor's snoring, and nothing else about him, kept her awake at night. "

― Edward St. Aubyn , Never Mind (Patrick Melrose, #1)

4 " a face like a crème brûlée after the first blow of the spoon, "

― Edward St. Aubyn , Never Mind (Patrick Melrose, #1)

5 " But that's what the English mean, isn't it, when they say, "He was very philosophical about it"? They mean that someone stopped thinking about something. "

― Edward St. Aubyn , Never Mind (Patrick Melrose, #1)

6 " I still get more wedding invitations, but I find I enjoy the memorials more.’ ‘Because you don’t have to bring a present?’ ‘Well, that helps a great deal, but mainly because one gets a better crowd when someone really distinguished dies.’ ‘Unless all his friends have died before him.’ ‘That, of course, is intolerable,’ said Nicholas categorically. ‘Ruins the party.’ ‘Absolutely.’ ‘I’m afraid I don’t approve of memorial services,’ said David, taking another puff on his cigar. ‘Not merely because I cannot imagine anything in most men’s lives that deserves to be celebrated, but also because the delay between the funeral and the memorial service is usually so long that, far from rekindling the spirit of a lost friend, it only shows how easily one can live without him.’ David "

― Edward St. Aubyn , Never Mind (Patrick Melrose, #1)

7 " She imagined vodka poured over ice and all the cubes that had been frosted turning clean and collapsing in the glass and the ice cracking, like a spine in the hands of a confident osteopath. "

― Edward St. Aubyn , Never Mind (Patrick Melrose, #1)

8 " The drive rose sharply to the left of the steps to a circle of flat ground where her maroon Buick was parked under an umbrella pine. It looked preposterous, stretched out on its white-walled tyres against the terraced vines and olive groves behind it, but to Eleanor her car was like a consulate in a strange city, and she moved towards it with the urgency of a robbed tourist. "

― Edward St. Aubyn , Never Mind (Patrick Melrose, #1)

9 " I just have to get rid of this piece of glass,' said Anne. 'I guess something broke here earlier?'
'It was me,' said Patrick. "

― Edward St. Aubyn , Never Mind (Patrick Melrose, #1)