James Meek Quotes

#1. He'd shot and beaten people because he couldn't talk to them.Violence was the only language nobody could understand. There were no translators.

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#2. What Dougie had actually said was You shouldn't get too up your own arse about being a dad. You get a wee man or a wee lassie to play with for a bit and the next thing you know there's this superfluous person knocking about who doesn't seem to know much about you, but it's all your fault.

James Meek

#3. People find different ways of keeping the ones they loved among the living, he said cautiously. Children. Memories. The names of things.

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#4. She loved herself, and her body's resistance to all those poisons was the exact measure of how indestructibly young and beautiful she felt she was.

James Meek

#5. And you thought: they're used to it. But that was how those who suffered less always thought about those who suffered more, that they were used to it, that they no longer felt it as you did. Nobody ever got used to it. All they learned to do was to stop letting it show.

James Meek