Clare

“Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.”
― Winston Churchill

“He thought other resourceful people would have come, over the years, to look at it, and that the house would wear its own mild frown of self-regard, a certain half-friendly awareness of being admired. It would live up to its fame. But really there was nothing to see. The upstairs windows seemed to ponder blankly on the reflections of clouds.”
― Alan Hollinghurst, The Stranger's Child

“He somehow saw that to her being drunk had its whole long sentimental history, whereas to him it was a freakish novelty.”
― Alan Hollinghurst, The Stranger's Child

“For man is essentially alone, and one should pity him and love him and grieve with him.”
― Halldór Laxness