But the thing which had made him fall for her, fall properly, was the way she seemed so calm and so quiet and so sad. Surrounded by noisy bankers showing off, and their variously pushy or beady or anxious or competitive wives, she seemed to be from somewhere else; a place where people carried their own burdens; a grander and realer and more honourable place. Roger didn't know that Matya spent a lot of that evening thinking about home, but he could tell that she was thinking about something, and it was that other thing which, for him, did it.
John LanchesterTag: love home desire calmness quietness fancy crushes
He looked as if he he subsisted exclusively on carbohydrates and ill feeling.
John LanchesterTag: illness carbohydrates ill-feeling moping
You could not spend your entire span of life in thrall to the code of stuff. There was no code of stuff. Stuff was just stuff. You couldn't live by it or for it.
John LanchesterTag: life stuff belongings material-possessions
The seven Ps: Proper Planning and Preparation Prevent Piss-Poor Performance
John LanchesterTag: capital lanchester
Sometimes, the only way of doing something is to do it.
John LanchesterIt was a rule of London life that anybody could be anybody
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