“She respected her husband in the same way as she respected the General Post Office, as something large, secure and fixed: and though she knew the small number of his talents she appreciated his abs...”

“One by one they were all becoming shades. Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.”

“He watched the scene and thought of life; and (as always happened when he thought of life) he became sad. A gentle melancholy took possession of him. He felt how useless it was to struggle against ...”

“He looked down the slope and, at the base, in the shadow of the wall of the Park, he saw some human figures lying. Those venal and furtive loves filled him with despair. He gnawed the rectitude of ...”

“He lived at a little distance from his body, regarding his own acts with doubtful side-glasses.”

“Though their life was modest, they believed in eating well.”

“Bursts of hope make despair harder to live with.”

“She has to live, Eliott. I owe her a lifetime of apologies.Sometimes I think thats all we owe our parents.”

“I won't cry. When the guilt is this heavy, you can't. It just settles and stays with you, and it's cold.”

“Only once in your life, I truly believe, you find someone who can completely turn your world around. You tell them things that youve never shared with another soul and they absorb everything you sa...”

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”

“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there i...”