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Michel Faber Quote: “Prostitution.′ He enunciates the word clearly, gazing directly into her eyes, knowing, God damn it, that he is being cruel. In the back of his mind, a kinder William Rackham watches impotently as his wife is penetrated by that single elongated word, its four slick syllables barbed midway with t’s. Agnes’s cameo face goes white as she gulps for air.”

51. “Prostitution.′ He enunciates the word clearly, gazing directly into her eyes, knowing, God damn it, that he is being cruel. In the back of his mind, a kinder William Rackham watches impotently as his wife is penetrated by that single elongated word, its four slick syllables barbed midway with t’s. Agnes’s cameo face goes white as she gulps for air.”

— Michel Faber

Michel Faber Quote: “Without you at my side, I feel as though my eyes are just a camera, like a closed-circuit camera without film in it, registering what’s out there, second by second, letting it all vanish instantly to be replaced by more images, none of them properly appreciated.”

52. “Without you at my side, I feel as though my eyes are just a camera, like a closed-circuit camera without film in it, registering what’s out there, second by second, letting it all vanish instantly to be replaced by more images, none of them properly appreciated.”

— Michel Faber

Michel Faber Quote: “These days, the bigger the company, the less you can figure out what it does.”

53. “These days, the bigger the company, the less you can figure out what it does.”

— Michel Faber

Michel Faber Quote: “She holds her head as high as if she were beautiful, and holds her body as if she were strong.”

54. “She holds her head as high as if she were beautiful, and holds her body as if she were strong.”

— Michel Faber

Michel Faber Quote: “He only wished he’d had the chance to explain more fully how prayer worked. That it wasn’t a matter of asking for things and being accepted or rejected, it was a matter of adding one’s energy – insignificant in itself – to the vastly greater energy that was God’s love. In fact, it was an affirmation of being part of God, an aspect of His spirit temporarily housed inside a body.”

55. “He only wished he’d had the chance to explain more fully how prayer worked. That it wasn’t a matter of asking for things and being accepted or rejected, it was a matter of adding one’s energy – insignificant in itself – to the vastly greater energy that was God’s love. In fact, it was an affirmation of being part of God, an aspect of His spirit temporarily housed inside a body.”

— Michel Faber

Michel Faber Quote: “La curiosidad es el nombre despectivo que los hombres dan a la sed de conocimiento que tienen las mujeres.”

56. “La curiosidad es el nombre despectivo que los hombres dan a la sed de conocimiento que tienen las mujeres.”

— Michel Faber

Michel Faber Quote: “Coincidences like that served as a reminder that, variations in pigment aside, humans were all part of the same species.”

57. “Coincidences like that served as a reminder that, variations in pigment aside, humans were all part of the same species.”

— Michel Faber

Michel Faber Quote: “Forgive me, Lord, for the smallness and selfishness of my mind. Amen.”

58. “Forgive me, Lord, for the smallness and selfishness of my mind. Amen.”

— Michel Faber

Michel Faber Quote: “Can’t you see that? Everybody’s sentimental, everybody.”

59. “Can’t you see that? Everybody’s sentimental, everybody.”

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Michel Faber Quote: “He 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.”

60. “He 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 Faber

Michel Faber Quote: “Why was even the shallowest human conversation so fraught with pitfalls and tricky calibrations? Why couldn’t people just keep silent until they had something essential to say, like the Oasans?”

61. “Why was even the shallowest human conversation so fraught with pitfalls and tricky calibrations? Why couldn’t people just keep silent until they had something essential to say, like the Oasans?”

— Michel Faber

Michel Faber Quote: “They both sat in silence for the rest of the journey, as if conscious of having let each other down.”

62. “They both sat in silence for the rest of the journey, as if conscious of having let each other down.”

— Michel Faber

Michel Faber Quote: “But to be chemically fixed in time and passed hand to hand forever: that is a nakedness which can never be clothed again.”

63. “But to be chemically fixed in time and passed hand to hand forever: that is a nakedness which can never be clothed again.”

— Michel Faber

Michel Faber Quote: “Belief was a place that people didn’t leave until they absolutely must.”

64. “Belief was a place that people didn’t leave until they absolutely must.”

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Michel Faber Quote: “Needs could not bully her.”

65. “Needs could not bully her.”

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Michel Faber Quote: “Isserley walked along the path the generations of sheep-flocks had made, up the tiers of the hill. In her mind, she was already.”

66. “Isserley walked along the path the generations of sheep-flocks had made, up the tiers of the hill. In her mind, she was already.”

— Michel Faber

Michel Faber Quote: “Proof, once again, that reality was not objective, but always waiting to be reshaped and redefined by one’s attitude.”

67. “Proof, once again, that reality was not objective, but always waiting to be reshaped and redefined by one’s attitude.”

— Michel Faber

Michel Faber Quote: “It was such an infantile prayer, the sort of prayer a five-year-old might pray. But maybe those were the best kind.”

68. “It was such an infantile prayer, the sort of prayer a five-year-old might pray. But maybe those were the best kind.”

— Michel Faber

Michel Faber Quote: “The crowds that queued for snacks and knick-knacks, the constant stream of passengers recorded by the closed-circuit TVs, were wondrous proof of the sheer variety of human specimens, except that they were presumed to be identically faithless inside, duty-free in every sense of that word.”

69. “The crowds that queued for snacks and knick-knacks, the constant stream of passengers recorded by the closed-circuit TVs, were wondrous proof of the sheer variety of human specimens, except that they were presumed to be identically faithless inside, duty-free in every sense of that word.”

— Michel Faber

Michel Faber Quote: “People were so strange and sometimes you got tired just thinking about them.”

70. “People were so strange and sometimes you got tired just thinking about them.”

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Michel Faber Quote: “Facts! Stick to the facts! That gets rid of 99 per cent of everything anyone’s ever said or written, which cuts your homework down to a nice manageable size, doesn’t it? Sniff out the truth!”

71. “Facts! Stick to the facts! That gets rid of 99 per cent of everything anyone’s ever said or written, which cuts your homework down to a nice manageable size, doesn’t it? Sniff out the truth!”

— Michel Faber

Michel Faber Quote: “The good that we do sinks into history like rainfall into the earth. The earth, being earth, cannot feel gratitude or award us with medals, but it can grow flowers, and that is our reward.”

72. “The good that we do sinks into history like rainfall into the earth. The earth, being earth, cannot feel gratitude or award us with medals, but it can grow flowers, and that is our reward.”

— Michel Faber

Michel Faber Quote: “Unfortunately, stupidity, like rust and weeds and lies and mould, tends to spread.”

73. “Unfortunately, stupidity, like rust and weeds and lies and mould, tends to spread.”

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Michel Faber Quote: “Indispensable.’ It was a word people tended to resort to when dispensability was in the air.”

74. “Indispensable.’ It was a word people tended to resort to when dispensability was in the air.”

— Michel Faber

Michel Faber Quote: “Happiness was such an elusive thing to spot: it was like a camouflaged moth that might or might not be hidden in the forest in front of you, or might have flown away.”

75. “Happiness was such an elusive thing to spot: it was like a camouflaged moth that might or might not be hidden in the forest in front of you, or might have flown away.”

— Michel Faber

Michel Faber Quote: “Following dragonflies didn’t qualify as a clever or well-thought-out plan of action.”

76. “Following dragonflies didn’t qualify as a clever or well-thought-out plan of action.”

— Michel Faber

Michel Faber Quote: “During the night, her body had come to a fine agreement with the blanket, sheets, and mattress; they’d all got on really well and found the perfect balance of natural blood-circulation and cost wrapped-upness.”

77. “During the night, her body had come to a fine agreement with the blanket, sheets, and mattress; they’d all got on really well and found the perfect balance of natural blood-circulation and cost wrapped-upness.”

— Michel Faber

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