Sebastian Faulks : (3)

" Certainly, we all have within us the potential to live in a hugely different way. And how happy you can make yourself, I think, a lot depends on how much you beat yourself up about that; and how much you can, in some sort of providential way, console yourself and say, ‘Well, it’s all worked out for the best, in the best of all possible worlds.’ " - Sebastian Faulks

" A romantic is someone who believes that something is valuable even if it doesn’t last. And a non-romantic is someone who says that if something doesn’t endure, or can’t be logically proved and pinned down, it’s worthless. " - Sebastian Faulks

" The nicest characters in ‘A Week in December’ are, in fact, Muslims – and their religious devotion is one of the things that defines them. " - Sebastian Faulks