“I have felt more passion with less comfort elsewhere: the mysterious deep half-blind preferences of human beings for each other, the quick probing tentacles that seek in the dark, why one in...”
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Following the death of his wife, Max Morden retreats to the seaside town of his childhood summers, where his own life becomes inextricably entwined with the members of the vacationing Grace family.
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John Banville
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“I have felt more passion with less comfort elsewhere: the mysterious deep half-blind preferences of human beings for each other, the quick probing tentacles that seek in the dark, why one in...”
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“There is a deep foundation of my being which knows not of time and change and is still and ever with Hartley, in that good place where we once were.”
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“But by now anything was better than hope.”
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“We carry the dead with us only until we die too, and then it is we who are borne along for a little while, and then our bearers in their turn drop, and so on into the unimaginable generation...”
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“We are all potentially demons to each other, but some close relationships are saved from this fate.”
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“Everything is full of gods, cousin James once said, quoting somebody.”
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“The past beats inside me like a second heart.”
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“Everything is full of gods, ‘ cousin James once said, quoting somebody.”
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“Christ, I loathe women. But I can't get going on the other tack either. And you needn't blush and look coy, I never fancied you. I know what you got up to with Fritzie Eitel! No—but I'd have...”
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“…we have futures. That means we can make things true…”
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