Take me! Well, not quite take me, love me now, take me eventually
Fay WeldonTags: feminism great-war male-war
If anything happiness is a feeling of being essential
Fay WeldonThe more you want the more you suffer. If you want everything you must suffer everything.
Fay WeldonAre you sure you wouldn't like some toast, Phyllis? Toast is one of the triumphs of our civilisation. It must be made with very fresh bread, thickly cut; then toasted very quickly and buttered at once, so the butter is half-melted. Unsalted butter, of course; you sprinkle it with salt afterwards. Sea salt, preferably.
Fay WeldonThis is my home now. I like it. Nothing happens here. I know what to expect from one day to the next. I can control everything, and I can eat. I like eating.
Fay WeldonNew lives always begin tomorrow, […] Never now.
Fay WeldonBecause lurking somewhere beneath the surface of your brain is a vision of loneliness, and it will be a terrible moment when it breaks through, and you realise that your future is not a green pastures, but the knackers yard. We are all separate people, and we are all alone. It is a ridiculous thing to say that no man is an island. We are all islands. You can die, and Gerry won't. Gerry can die, and you won't. Our lives just go on, separate as they have always been.
Fay WeldonFood. Drink. Sleep. Books. They are all drugs.
Fay WeldonLoving is upsetting. That's the point of it.
Fay WeldonSome of us are made fat and some of us are made thin, and that's all there is to it.
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