Nowadays, her life is more like a newspaper: aimless, up-to-date and full of meaningless events

- Michel Faber

Of course I know that the twins are only words on a page, and I'm certainly not the sort of writer who talks to his characters or harbours any illusi…

- Michel Faber

Clothes are nothing more than a fig leaf. And the bodies beneath are just another layer of clothing, an outfit of flesh with an impractically thin le…

- Michel Faber

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 inattenti…

- Michel Faber

Most distracting of all, though, was not the threat of danger but the allure of beauty.

- Michel Faber

Watch your step. Keep your wits about you; you will need them.

- Michel Faber

I am a fallen woman, but I assure you: I did not fall. I was pushed.

- Michel Faber

History indulges strange whims in the way it dresses its women.

- Michel Faber

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