BOOK STARTERS VOL.47 TRAINSPOTTING IRVINE WELSH
❛ We start off with high hopes, then we bottle it. We realise that we’re all going to die, without really finding out the big answers. ❜
❛ By definition, you have to live until you die. Better to make that life as complete and enjoyable an experience as possible, in case death is shite, which I suspect it will be. ❜
❛ I chose not to choose life. I chose somethin’ else. ❜
❛ And the reasons? There are no reasons. ❜
❛ Love does not exist, it's like religion, made to control you. ❜
❛ After all, we're not fucking stupid. At least, we're not that fucking stupid. ❜
❛ You fucking knew that fucking cunt would fuck some cunt. ❜
❛ Everything in the street today seems soft focus. ❜
❛ What does that make us? The lowest of the low. ❜
❛ Take your best orgasm, multiply the feeling by twenty, and you're still fuckin’ miles off the pace. ❜
❛ It’s as if everything is a copy of what you knew before, similar, yet somehow lacking in its usual qualities, a bit like the way things are in a dream. ❜
❛ It’s all okay, it’s all beautiful; but I fear that this internal sea is going to subside soon, leaving this poisonous shite washed up, stranded up in my body. ❜
❛ It cuts me up. It confuses me. ❜
❛ It's not funny laughter. This is lynch mob laughter. ❜
❛ Protect me from those who wish to help us. ❜
❛ They mean well, and they mean well to me, but there's no way under the sun that they can appreciate what I feel, what I need. ❜
❛ The pit of melancholy is a bottomless one, and I am descending fast. ❜
❛ Living like this is a full-time business. ❜
❛ I’ll stand or fall alone. ❜
❛ We are no wiser now than at the start. ❜
❛ This is pathetic, and fucking boring. ❜
❛ Death is usually a process, rather than an event. ❜
❛ We're ruled by effete arseholes. What does that make us? ❜
❛ We are all acquaintances now. ❜
❛ The problem is that this beautiful ocean carries with it loads of poisonous flotsam and jetsam. ❜
❛ Life is beautiful. I'm going to enjoy it, and I'm going to have a long life. ❜
❛ The grim reality of impending death can be talked away by trying to invest in the present reality of life. ❜
❛ There must be more to life than this. ❜
❛ We all see what we want to see. ❜
❛ Statistically speaking, you're more likely to be killed by a member of your own family or a close friend, than by anyone else. ❜