# Quote — Martin Amis, London Fields

> Of all the forces, love is the strangest. ... Love can make a woman pick up a bus, or it can crush a man under the weight of a feather. Or it just lets everything go on as it was yesterday and will be tomorrow. That's the kind of force love is.

- Author: [Martin Amis](https://www.leafyquotes.com/martin-amis.md)
- Book: [London Fields](https://www.leafyquotes.com/martin-amis/london-fields.md)
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> The driver treated his cab as a peasant might treat his horse or ass, with numb and proprietorial cruelty. The bursts of acceleration were like long-toothed, lip-flapping exhalations; then came the looping whinny of the brakes.

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> The only writer who gives me unfeigned pleasure is P. G. Wodehouse. And even him I find a bit heavy. He takes a lot out of me. Scratching my hair, with soft whistles, with lips aquiver, I frown over Sunset at Blandings.

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> Someone watches over us when we write. Mother. Teacher. Shakespeare. God.

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