Gilbert’s Reviews > Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder > Status Update

My theme is memory, that winged host that soared about me one grey morning of war-time.

Sometimes I feel the past and the present and the future pressing so hard upon me I can’t hold it all in. That’s why I drink, Charles.

“But you can't believe things because they're a lovely idea."
"But I do. That's how I believe.''

“I’m not going to have you get mixed up with my family. They’re so madly charming. All my life they’ve been taking things away from me. If they once got hold of you with their charm, they’d make you their friend, not mine, and I won’t let them.”