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

You get a lot of borderline cases in libraries.

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....

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

I was a teacher most of my life, which I loved. I had a very happy working life, and when I retired,....