{"author":"Michel Faber","author_id":"Michel+Faber","total_quotes":18,"quotes":[{"text":"Well, here we are.'Sometimes a statement of the bloody obvious was the only appropriate way forward. As if to give life ceremonious permission to proceed.","author":"Michel Faber","tags":["fiction","life","life-and-living"],"id":449,"author_id":"Michel+Faber"},{"text":"A person who is worth nothing must introduce you to a person worth next-to-nothing, and that person to another, and so on and so forth until finally you can step across the threshold, almost one of the family.","author":"Michel Faber","tags":["hard-truth","insight","society"],"id":59280,"author_id":"Michel+Faber"},{"text":"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.","author":"Michel Faber","tags":["emotions","life"],"id":66361,"author_id":"Michel+Faber"},{"text":"Proof, once again, that reality was not objective, but always waiting to be reshaped and redefined by one's attitude.","author":"Michel Faber","tags":["reality"],"id":107226,"author_id":"Michel+Faber"},{"text":"What do you expect? This place is one big anti-climax.","author":"Michel Faber","tags":["anticlimactic","apathy","existence","existentialism","futility","habit","hopeless","hopelessness","time"],"id":179404,"author_id":"Michel+Faber"},{"text":"But miracles are not for the asking; they come only when the stern eyes of God droop shut for a moment, and Our Lady takes advantage of His inattention to grant an illicit mercy. God...Is an Anglican, whereas Our Lady is of the True Faith; the two of Them have an uneasy relationship, unable to agree on anything, except that if They divorce, the Devil will leap gleefully into the breach.","author":"Michel Faber","tags":["blending-faith","faith","marriage","miracles","religion"],"id":229224,"author_id":"Michel+Faber"},{"text":"How’s things, man?” The black man extended his hand for a handshake. Mathematical formulae were jotted on the sleeve of his shirt, right up to the elbow.“Very good,” said Peter. It had never occurred to him before that dark-skinned people didn’t have the option of jotting numbers on their skin. You learned something new about human diversity every day.","author":"Michel Faber","tags":["black","dark-skinned","diversity"],"id":262360,"author_id":"Michel+Faber"},{"text":"There were no oceans on Oasis, no large bodies of water, and presumably no fish. He wondered whether this would cause comprehension problems when it came to certain crucial fish-related Bible stories. There were so many of those: Jonah and the whale, the miracle of the loaves and the fishes, the Galilean disciples being fishermen, the whole ‘fishers of men’ analogy . . . The bit in Matthew 13 about the kingdom of heaven being like a net cast into the sea, gathering fish of every kind . . . Even in the opening chapter of Genesis, the first animals God made were sea creatures. How much of the Bible would he have to give up as untranslatable?","author":"Michel Faber","tags":["bible","fish","fishers-of-men","fishing-nets","nets","translations"],"id":271261,"author_id":"Michel+Faber"},{"text":"The past was dwindling, like something shrinking to a speck in the rear-view mirror, and the future was shining through the windscreen, demanding her full attention.","author":"Michel Faber","tags":["future","past"],"id":282208,"author_id":"Michel+Faber"},{"text":"'A Christmas Carol' is an extravagantly symbolic thing - as rich in symbols as Christmas pudding is rich in raisins.","author":"Michel Faber","tags":["rich","symbols","symbolic "],"id":298573,"author_id":"Michel+Faber"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":18,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}