J.P. Delaney

Quotes

• “The same goes for Edward Monkford. Yes, based on what you've told me, it seems Emma was the real narcissist, not him. Bu...”
• “But don't you see, I say, I don't care. I don't care what you've done or how bad you are. Edward, we belong together. We...”
• “Love flows from me into him, and his blue eyes crinkle, huge and happy. Such a smiley baby. The midwife says it can't be...”
• “I will take what I can from Edward. And then I will let them fade into history, all the characters in this drama. Emma M...”
• “But one day, when Toby is old enough, I will take down a shoe box from a shelf where it is kept, and I will tell him aga...”
• “Sometimes it's as if I can shrink away to nothing. Sometimes I feel as pure and perfect as a ghost. The hunger, the head...”
• “I know it must look odd, given that I didn't even know Emma. But it seems to me that almost no one really knew her. Ever...”
• “That was Emma—she'd have enjoyed knowing she had something like that, something that could blow her whole fucking life a...”
• “All these men who loved Emma, I think. For all her problems, men were fixated on her. Will anyone ever feel like that ab...”
• “I feel a thrill of excitement at this first tiny glimpse of self-revelation, of intimacy.”
• “Life is simply too short to live it less perfectly than it could be lived.”