Sebastian Faulks
Biography
Quotes
- I want to be careful not to throw all this away. This is happiness. I think this is what happiness is. I haven't got it yet, but I can sense it out there. I feel I'm close to it. Some days, I'm so close I can almost smell it.
- That sense of happiness just out beyond my reach - I'm not sure I'd grasped that exactly, but I'd got something close to it, contentment maybe, or at least a functioning routine with regular rewards.
- The thought of all that happiness was hard to bear. What's the point of happiness when all it does is throw the facts of dying into clear relief?