Alice Thomas Ellis Quotes

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Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Alice Thomas Ellis
Lydia was tired of being good…It made her feel a little dowdy, as though she had taken up residence in the suburbs of morality.

Alice Thomas Ellis
One can get very fond of the people one meets in bars. The trouble is they then appear sort of different in the daylight and you realize that taking them with you is rather like taking a goldfish for a walk: not entirely correct, and surprising for the next people you run into.

Alice Thomas Ellis
Adolescence is usually typified by an unanswerable combination of innocence and insolence.

Alice Thomas Ellis
I have frequently thought that the dead should be buried with all their belongings. It seems weirdly perverse that their clothes should still be here when the people you love best in the world have gone.

Alice Thomas Ellis
Our only hope rests on the off-chance that God does exist.

Alice Thomas Ellis
Men love women
Women love children
Children love hamsters
And hamsters don't love anyone.

Alice Thomas Ellis
Men love women, women love children; children love hamsters—it's quite hopeless.

Alice Thomas Ellis
Claudia's the sort of person who goes through life holding on to the sides.

Alice Thomas Ellis
I have never had much trouble simultaneously entertaining diametrically opposed propositions, and welcome the possibility that this is not because I have one mind and am out of it, but because I have lots of them, all beavering away on their own.

Alice Thomas Ellis
Things are never so indescribably ghastly that they can't get worse.

Alice Thomas Ellis
When a person implores you to be reasonable what he means is that you should speed round forthwith to his point of view.

Alice Thomas Ellis