Quotes by Nathan Filer

About Nathan Filer:

Nathan Filer is a British writer whose debut novel, The Shock of the Fall, won several major awards, including the 2013 Costa Book of the Year and the 2014 Betty Trask Prize. It was a Sunday Times Bestseller, and one of the UK's best selling titles of 2014. It has been translated into thirty languages.
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But that is what these people do - the Steves of this world - they all try and make something out of nothing. and they all do it for themselves.

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Once-upon-a-time we buried the memories we didn't want.

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Any punishment is an insult to the crime

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HELLO, my name is your potential. But you can call me impossible. I am the missed opportunities. I am the expectations you will never fulfil. I am always taunting you, regardless of how hard you try, how hard you hope.

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Some madness doesn't act mad to begin with, sometimes it will knock politely at the door, and when you let it in, it'll simply sit in the corner without a fuss - and grow.

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Mental illness turns people inwards. That's what I reckon. It keeps up forever trapped by the pain of our own minds, in the same way that the pain of a broken leg or a cut thumb will grab your attention, holding it so tightly that your good leg or yo...

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Inside my head is a jigsaw made of trillions and trillions and trillions of atoms. It might take a while.

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When she turned to see me smiling. It was an awkward smile, but you only really know what a smile means when you own the face behind it. Everyone else just sees the smile they expected it to be.

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Mental illness turns people inwards. That’s what I reckon. It keeps us forever trapped by the pain of our own minds[...]

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She's known sadness. That's what it is. I only just thought that as I wrote it. She's known sadness, and it has made her kind.

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You only really know what a smile means when you own the face behind it. Everyone else just sees the smile they expect it to be.

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I guess there's a Use By date when it comes to blaming your parents for how messed up you are. I guess that's what turning eighteen means. Time to own it.

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We place memories on pieces of paper to know they will always exist.

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I do not have a split mind. I am not different people. I am myself, the same self I have always been, the one person I can never escape.

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I want to talk about the difference between living and existing, and what it was like to be kept on an acute psychiatric ward for day after day after day after day after day after day after day after day after day after day after day after day after ...

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It's hard to know what to say sometimes, when someone does something so nice. It's hard to know where to look.

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But sometimes all the stars in the entire universe conspire to make something good happen.

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Author Bio

  • NameNathan Filer
  • DescriptionBritish academic