60 quotes found
Novelist · Welsh · 1966
Welsh novelist (born 1966)
“I felt that thread that had come between us, tugging, tugging at my heart—so hard, it hurt me.”
“But, here was a curious thing. The more I tried to give up thinking of her, the more I said to myself, 'She's nothing to you', the harder I tried to pluck the idea of her out of my heart, the more ...”
“She wished for a moment that they were all children again. It still seemed extraordinary to her, that everything had turned out the way it had.”
“Don't you be thinking,' she says, 'on things that are done and can't be changed. All right, dear girl? You think of the time to come.”
“It is a world that is made of love. Did you think there is only the kind of love your sister has for her husband? Did you think there must be here, a man with whiskers, and over here, a lady in a g...”
“She said, 'It is filled with all the words for how I want you.”
“For she was the only one, of all of them, to have spared me a pleasant word; and suddenly I longed for time to pass, not for its own sake, but as it would take me back to her.”
“She said that that was the disadvantage of bringing creatures into the house: one grew used to them, and then, one had the upset of their loss.”
“They might be kind, I thought. They might be sensible and good. They will not be like you. But I did not say it. I knew it would mean nothing to her. I said something - something ordinary and mild,...”
“But the more I think it, the more I want her, the more my desire rises and swells.”
“It made me giddy. It made me blush, worse than before. It was like liquor. It made me drunk. I drew away. When her breath came now upon my mouth, it came very cold. My mouth was wet, from hers. I s...”
“She raised her head when she heard my step, and her gaze met my own, over the matron's dipping shoulder, and her eyes grew bright. I knew then how hard it had been to keep, not just from Millbank b...”
“But it's the simple and the good that are meant to suffer in this world—ain't it, though!”
“She shook her head, and closed her eyes. I felt her weariness then, and with it, my own. I felt it dark and heavy upon me, darker and heavier than any drug they ever gave me - it seemed heavy as de...”
“I had a very clear vision, of Selina with her hair about her shoulders, a crimson hat upon her head, a velvet coat, ice-skates - I must have been remembering some picture. I imagined myself beside ...”
“It's a curious, wanting thing.”
“But my thoughts were more like poisons. I had so many, they made me sick.”
“The vase was placed upon my desk, and there were orange-blossoms in it—orange-blossoms, in an English winter!”
“I shivered again, remembering. I put the tip of one finger to my tongue. It tasted sharp—like vinegar, like blood.Like money.”
“She was about to be married, and was frightened to death. And no-one would love her, ever again.”
