13 quotes found
“Some things belong to the past.”
“Thats what friends are for, Sheba”
“That’s what friends are for,” Sheba”
“Im not just a face, or a body. Im a Havisham.”
“I’m not just a face, or a body. I’m a Havisham.”
“Dont we have to live a little first? And read later?”
“We were perfectly decorous together. It took the will of both of us. I trusted him with me, and myself with him.”
“Experience can never be undone, or knowledge unlearned.”
“At the age of nine, I could cross the length of Glasgow on a succession of buses, wearing regulation garter-topped stockings and compulsory cap and - if I'd done well enough to earn the honour in l...”
“Why dyou think she did it?I told him I had no idea. He seemed disappointed that I shouldnt know.A broken heart, I suggested.Do people suffer so much?For love? Oh, I imagine so.To drown herself?Why ...”
“Let's say I find a lot of current American fiction too overwritten for my tastes, too self-conscious; I like something that's simpler and more direct. The story is what matters to me. I hope to mak...”
“Don’t we have to live a little first? And read later?”
“Why d’you think she did it?”I told him I had no idea. He seemed disappointed that I shouldn’t know.“A broken heart,” I suggested.“Do people suffer so much?”“For love? Oh, I imagine so.”“To drown he...”
