“Believing himself to be unseen by other bathers, he gave himself up to being alone with his body. He wriggled his toes, breathed hard through his nose, twisted his brown moustache where some drops of water still clung, and looked… — L.P. Hartley Copy Share Image
“But I was not so much interested in facts themselves as in the importance they had for my imagination. I was passionately interested in… — L.P. Hartley Copy Share Image
“I had never met a lord before, nor had I ever expected to meet one. It didn't matter what he looked like: he was… — L.P. Hartley Copy Share Image
“How terrifyingly efficient she sounds," said Stephen. "I think I should faint in her presence.” — L.P. Hartley Copy Share Image
You insisted on thinking of them as angels, even if they were fallen angels. — L.P. Hartley Copy Share Image
“...for the first time I couldn't feel really interested in my mother's letter. The small concerns of home, instead of coming close to me and enveloping me as I read about them, remained small and far away; they were like magic lantern slides without a lantern to bring them back to life. I didn't belong there, I felt; my place… — L.P. Hartley Copy Share
“I should not have cared to see it as an act of self-sacrifice even if it had been one; for there is nothing clever… — L.P. Hartley Copy Share Image
“Not Adam and Eve, after eating the apple, could have been more upset than I was.” — L.P. Hartley Copy Share Image
“Even the most impassioned devotee of the ghost story would admit that the taste for it is slightly abnormal, a survival, perhaps, from adolescence,… — L.P. Hartley Copy Share Image
“If my twelve-year-old self, of whom I had grown rather fond, thinking about him, were to reproach me: 'Why have you grown up such… — L.P. Hartley Copy Share Image
Grown-ups didn't seem to realize that for me, as for most other schoolboys, it was easier to keep silent than to speak. I was… — L.P. Hartley Copy Share Image
It's better to write about things you feel than about things you know about. — L.P. Hartley Copy Share Image
