Gabriel Hellen

“There was a change in both of us. We had lost a sense of discovery which had infused the anarchy of our first year.”
― Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited

“The zest, the generous affections, the illusions, the despair, all the traditional attributes of Youth -- all save this -- come and go with us through life; again and again in riper years we experience, under a new stimulus, what we thought had been finally left behind, the authentic impulse to action, the renewal of power and its concentration on a new object; again and again a new truth is revealed to us in whose light all our previous knowledge must be rearranged.”
― 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

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