Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has.
Anita Brookner
A man of such obvious and exemplary charm must be a liar.
Anita Brookner
You can never betray the people who are dead, so you go on being a public Jew; the dead can't answer slurs, but I'm here. I would love to think that Jesus wants me for a sunbeam, but he doesn't.
Anita Brookner
Love Quotes
No blame should attach to telling the truth. But it does, it does.
Anita Brookner
Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.
Anita Brookner
Love Quotes
She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.
Anita Brookner
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.