I am a fallen woman, but I assure you: I did not fall. I was pushed.
Michel FaberParticipating in Society in not a thing one can do naturally; one has to rehearse for it.
Michel FaberFew know what year it is, or even that eighteen and a half centuries are supposed to have passed since a Jewish troublemaker was hauled away to the gallows for disturbing the peace
Michel FaberAll along the street, keys rattle in key-holes as each shop's ornate metal clothing is stripped away...It's as if, having unlocked the chastity of shutters and doors, they can't see the point in maintaining any shred of modesty.
Michel FaberBut miracles are not for the asking; they come only when the stern eyes of God droop shut for a moment, and Our Lady takes advantage of His inattention to grant an illicit mercy. God...is an Anglican, whereas Our Lady is of the True Faith; the two of Them have an uneasy relationship, unable to agree on anything, except that if They divorce, the Devil will leap gleefully into the breach.
Michel FaberTags: religion faith marriage miracles blending-faith
Of course I know that the twins are only words on a page, and I'm certainly not the sort of writer who talks to his characters or harbours any illusions about the creative process. But at the same time, I think it's juvenile and arrogant when literary writers compulsively remind their readers that the characters aren't real. People know that already. The challenge is to make an intelligent reader suspend disbelief, to seduce them into the reality of a narrative.
Michel FaberTags: short-stories realism fahrenheit-twins
Nowadays, her life is more like a newspaper: aimless, up-to-date and full of meaningless events
Michel FaberA single day spent doing things which fail to nourish the soul is a day stolen, mutilated, and discarded in the gutter of destiny.
Michel FaberHe ought to have conceded that she was a flower not destined to open, a hothouse creation, no less beautiful, no less woth having, He should have admired her, praised her and, at the close of day, let her be.
Michel FaberWe're moving towards such a strange time.A time when all our moral choices will be complicated and compromised by our love of progress
Michel FaberTags: the-crimson-petal-and-the-white
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