Quotes by : Anita Brookner

I suppose what one wants really is ideal company and books are ideal company.

You are wrong if you think you cannot live without love, Edith.''No, I am not,' she said, slowly. 'I....

[…] nobody grows up. Everyone carries around all the selves that they have ever been, intact, waiting....

All good fortune is a gift of the gods and ... you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being....

I think that those few words were my greatest mistake.

No blame should attach to telling the truth.

Boundaries keep people out mine served only to keep me in.

I reflected how easy it is for a man to reduce women of a certain age to imbecility. All he has to do....

That sun, that light had faded, and she had faded with them. Now she was as grey as the season itself.....

Not everyone is born to fulfill an heroic role. The only realistic ambition is to live in the present.....