The End Of The Affair Quotes

“-"-A book takes me a year to write. It's too hard work for a revenge."
-"If you knew how little you had to revenge...".”
― Graham Greene, The End of the Affair

“Perhaps we were looking strained in our manner, because I noticed we had attracted the attention of a little man who sat on a sofa not far off. I tried to outstare him and that was easy. He had a long moustache and fawn-like eyes and he looked hurriedly away: his elbow caught his glass of beer and spun it on to the floor, so that he was overcome with confusion. I was sorry then because it occurred to me that he might have recognized me from my photographs: he might even be one of my few readers. He had a small boy sitting with him, and what a cruel thing it is to humiliate a father in the presence of his son. The boy blushed scarlet when the waiter hurried forward, and his father began to apologize with unnecessary vehemence.”
― Graham Greene, The End of the Affair

“It would be better if I called you,’ she told me, and caution, I thought,
caution, how well she knows how to conduct an affair like this, and I
remembered again the stair that always - ‘always’ was the phrase she had
used -squeaked.”
― Graham Greene, The End of the Affair

“I have the distinct feeling that I don't know you anymore. Actually, at least this way everything is clear. You'll go back to your little world and everything will be for the best. The time has passed now... Something's telling us it's over between us.”
― Dominique Goblet, Pretending Is Lying