Quotes by : Alan Hollinghurst

She felt that at some point she must finally and formally talk to Louisa about Hubert, and ask her to....

He wanted pure compliments, just as he wanted unconditional love.

Delight is délice, délit is a misdemeanour''Well, it's bloody close...''Well, they often are....

Andrew Davies has said he prefers his authors dead, and I can see there is only a limited usefulness....

She felt something similar, but worse in a way, about hundreds and hundreds of books she’d read, novels,....

He was asking for memories, too young himself to know that memories were only memories of memories.

she kept sliding down, in small half-willing surrenders, till she was a heap, with the book held tiringly....

He was an animal, that great thing for someone else to be.

On the stairs he was crying so much he hardly saw where he was going - not a mad boo-hoo but wailing....

The worse they are the more they see beauty in each other.