Quotes by : Anita Brookner

And without understanding, could each properly love the other?

Literature for me was a magnificent destiny for which I was not yet fully prepared. 76

Existentialism is about being a saint without God; being your own hero, without all the sanction and....

Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has.

The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become....

[…] 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.

Of course, the spectacle of two people's happiness is always something of a magnet for the unclaimed.....

They had waited for too long, and the result was this hiatus, and the reflection that time and patience....