And going into the showers I saw a suntanned young lad in…

To apologize for what you most wanted to do, to concede that it was obnoxious, boring, 'vulgar and unsafe' --- that was the worst…

— Alan Hollinghurst

“Now he had chanced on one of he standard hard-on sessions of the shower, as on both sides of him and across the room…

— Alan Hollinghurst

“It was the time of year when the atmosphere streamed with unexpected hints and memories, and a paradoxical sense of renewal.”

— Alan Hollinghurst

“Paul was blandness itself, just tinged with pink.”

— Alan Hollinghurst

“Delight is délice, délit is a misdemeanour' 'Well, it's bloody close...' 'Well, they often are…”

— Alan Hollinghurst

What the problem was was this colossal redundancy, the squandering of brilliant technique on cheap material, ...

— Alan Hollinghurst

“The pursuit of love seemed to need the cultivation of indifference.”

— Alan Hollinghurst

Now that I had actually made love, more astonishingly now that I had been made love to, the fantasies were subtly undermined.

— Alan Hollinghurst

“After that they browsed for a minute or two in a semi-detached fashion. Nick found a set of Trollope which had a relatively modest…

— Alan Hollinghurst

“She felt that at some point she must finally and formally talk to Louisa about Hubert, and ask her to acknowledge that the worst…

— Alan Hollinghurst

...all his longings came out as a kind of disdain for what he longed for.

— Alan Hollinghurst

“...but he felt the relief of being alone as well...the forgotten solitude which measures and verifies the strength of an affair, and which, being…

— Alan Hollinghurst

“Andrew Davies has said he prefers his authors dead, and I can see there is only a limited usefulness in a live one when…

— Alan Hollinghurst

“And something else came back, from that later first morning at Kensington Park Gardens: a sense that the house was not only an enhancement…

— Alan Hollinghurst

He wanted pure compliments, just as he wanted unconditional love.

— Alan Hollinghurst