How absolute the knave is!
So was she on the side of dragons and indifferent to the fate of princesses?
Where’s your house?’ ‘Kempsford Gardens, by West Brompton tube station.
I’m not interested. I never liked him. He’s some sort scoundrel.
He can do anything he likes and I’m so lonely, oh so lonely – And I put up with it because there was nothing else to do –.
I’m afraid you’re all mixed up in my mind,’ I said. ‘I wonder where they are now –’ ‘Married.’ She spoke it as if it were the name of a distant country.
She was a part, an evidence, of some pure uncracked unfissured confidence in the good which was never there for me again.
If only he could be loved by somebody new.
But very few ordeals are redemptive and I doubt if the descent into hell teaches anything new. It can only hasten processes which are already in existence, and usually this just means that it degrades. You see, in hell one lacks the energy for any good change. This indeed is the meaning of hell.
It’s all a dream, he thought, one goes through life in a dream, it’s all too hard.
All the effort which he had put into making himself seemed vanity now that there were no more purposes.
Nothing will bring me peace except revenge.
Sometimes he would have liked to pray, but what is prayer if there is nobody there?
You can’t imagine what it’s like when every moment you’re conscious you’re in the most frightful pain.
The world is perhaps ultimately to be defined as a place of suffering. Man is a suffering animal, subject to ceaseless anxiety and pain and fear.
But thinking about wickedness usually just comforts.
I’m not like other people, my life just doesn’t work, it never has.
Brooding about the past is so often fantasy of how one might have won and resentment that one didn’t. It is that resentment which one so often mistakes for repentance.
Why does one never see dead birds? How can they all hide to die?
She did not want to be as before. She wanted great changes in her life.