The Book of Strange New Things Quotes.

1. "The world changes too fast. You take your eyes off something that's always been there, and the next minute it's just a memory."
- Michel Faber, The Book of Strange New Things

2. "Most true things are kind of corny, don’t you think? But we make them more sophisticated out of sheer embarrassment."
- Michel Faber, The Book of Strange New Things

3. "Some people go through the heavy stuff. They fight in wars. They're in jail. They start a business and it gets shut down by gangsters. They end up hustling their ass in a foreign country. It's one long list of setbacks and humiliations. But it doesn't touch them, not really. They're having an adventure. It's like: What's next? And then there's other people who are just trying to live quietly, they stay out of trouble, they're maybe ten years old, or fourteen, and one Friday morning at 9:35 something happens to them, something private, something that breaks their heart. Forever."
- Michel Faber, The Book of Strange New Things

4. "Peter... She let her head fall back against the seat and sighed. Let’s not go there. That’s what people always say about places where they already are."
- Michel Faber, The Book of Strange New Things

5. "These days, the bigger the company, the less you can figure out what it does."
- Michel Faber, The Book of Strange New Things

6. "Because human beings suffer so much more than ducks. You might not think so if you were a duck."
- Michel Faber, The Book of Strange New Things

7. "Peter was struck by the scar’s essential nature: it was not a disfigurement, it was a miracle. All the scars ever suffered by anyone in the whole of human history were not suffering but triumph: triumph against decay, triumph against death."
- Michel Faber, The Book of Strange New Things

8. "Being apart was wrong. Simply lying side by side did more for a relationship than words. A warm bed, a nest of animal intimacy. Words could be misunderstood, whereas loving companionship bred trust."
- Michel Faber, The Book of Strange New Things

9. "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, The Book of Strange New Things

10. "I just wish, she said, that this magnificent, stupendous God of yours could give a fuck."
- Michel Faber, The Book of Strange New Things