“There had always been aspects of the daily management of Birnam Wood that Mira had seen as her beneath her; she had always acted as though the administration and the democratic protocols were unworthy of her attention and her time.… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
“He was not surly by temperment, and in fact did not find it difficult to form friendships, nor to allow those friendships to deepen, once they had been formed; he simply preferred to answer to himself. He disliked all burdens… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
“We spend our entire lives thinking about death. Without that project to divert us, I expect we would all be dreadfully bored. We would… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
I often feel intellectually frustrated when I'm in a position where I'm not moving forward; when I'm not enquiring about something. — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
An interesting thing about New Zealand, you know, literature is that it really didn't begin in any real sense until the 20th century. — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
“own reputation, by associating himself with a story of cuckoldry, blackmail, murder, and revenge, and nor did he spare a thought for how Balfour… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
“In my experience people are rarely contented to end up where they started.” — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
“His temperament was deeply nostalgic, not for for his own past, but for past ages; he was cynical of the present, fearful of the… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
“What was glimpsed in Aquarius—what was envisioned, believed in, prophesied, predicted, doubted, and forewarned—is made, in Pisces, manifest. Those solitary visions that, but a… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
“Gaining control isn't the exciting part. Sleeping with a minor isn't exciting because you get to boss them around. It's exciting because you're risking… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
Astrology's a moving system that depends on where you're looking at it from on Earth. My horoscope here in London would be completely different… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
As an artist, you need to be not at all entitled in your relation with the work. So money is kind of worrying. You… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
The nice thing about the zodiac as a system is it is quite comprehensive as a range of impulses and psychological states it can… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
“True feeling is always circular - either circular, or paradoxical - simply because its cause and its expression are tow halves of the very… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
