Gabriel Hellen

“Sebastian is in love with his own childhood. That will make him very unhappy.”
― Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited

“I said to the doctor, who was with us daily. 'He's got a wonderful will to live, hasn't he?'
'Would you put it like that? I should say a great fear of death.'
'Is there a difference?'
'Oh dear, yes. He doesn't derive any strength from his fear, you know. It's wearing him out.”
― Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited

“I knew Sebastian by sight long before I met him. That was unavoidable for, from his first week, he was the most conspicuous man of his year by reason of his beauty, which was arresting, and his eccentricities of behaviour, which seemed to know no bounds... I was struck less by his looks than by the fact that he was carrying a large teddy-bear".”
― Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited

“Here my last love had died.”
― Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited