“I sometimes seem to myself to wander around the world merely accumulating material for future nostalgias.”
― From Heaven Lake: Travels Through Sinkiang and Tibet
― From Heaven Lake: Travels Through Sinkiang and Tibet
“But I too hate long books: the better, the worse. If they're bad they merely make me pant with the effort of holding them up for a few minutes. But if they're good, I turn into a social moron for days, refusing to go out of my room, scowling and growling at interruptions, ignoring weddings and funerals, and making enemies out of friends. I still bear the scars of Middlemarch.”
― A Suitable Boy
― A Suitable Boy
“What is the difference between my life and my love? One gets me low, the other lets me go.”
― An Equal Music
― An Equal Music
“God save us from people who mean well.”
― A Suitable Boy
― A Suitable Boy
“Is it not love that knows how to make smooth things rough and rough things smooth?”
― An Equal Music
― An Equal Music
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