“But I cannot love her as I did, because she is not open, because she withholds what matters, because she makes me,… — A.S. Byatt Copy Share Image
“She is afraid of divorce, which will free her, as she was not enough afraid of marriage, which trapped her.” — a.s. byatt Copy Share Image
“Balzac's cynicism was always nevertheless romantic - such greed, such gusto. 'Le dégoût, c'est voir juste. Après la possession, l'amour voit juste… — A.S. Byatt Copy Share Image
“This is where I have always been coming to. Since my time began. And when I go away from here, this will… — A.S. Byatt Copy Share Image
“Randolph Henry Ash: “What is it? My dear?” Christabel LaMotte: “Ah, how can we bear it?” Randolph Henry Ash: “Bear what?” Christabel… — A.S. Byatt Copy Share Image
“...I have always believed I cd diagnose this state of being in love, which they regard as most particular, as inspired by… — A.S. Byatt Copy Share Image
“Julian was good at being in love. But he was clever enough to know that what he really liked about being in… — A.S. Byatt Copy Share Image
“A man is the history of his breaths and thoughts, acts, atoms and wounds, love indifference and dislike, also of his race… — A.S. Byatt Copy Share Image
“It was hard for a man and a woman to be fiends with no under thought or glimpsed prospect of sex. They… — A.S. Byatt Copy Share Image
“We rode back from Richmond decorously side by side on the top of a bus. It was as though my left side… — A.S. Byatt Copy Share Image
“You know, all poetry may be a cry of generalised love, for this, or that, or the universe - which must be… — A.S. Byatt Copy Share Image
“Things had changed between them nevertheless. They were children of a time and culture which mistrusted love, 'in love', romantic love, romance… — A.S. Byatt Copy Share Image
“Above his head at street level, he saw an angled aileron of a scarlet Porsche, its jaunty fin more or less at the upper… — A.S. Byatt Copy Share Image
“Why do you go cold?" He kept his voice gentle. "I - I've analysed it. Because I have the sort of good looks I… — A.S. Byatt Copy Share Image
“She was a thinking child, and worked this out. It hurt her, unlike most knowledge, which was strength and pleasure.” — A.S. Byatt Copy Share Image
“Those words . . . national and portrait. They were both to do with identity: the identity of a culture (place, language and history),… — A.S. Byatt Copy Share Image
“All these are true and none. The place is there Is what we name it, and is not. It is .” — A.S. Byatt Copy Share Image
“He had been taught that language was essentially inadequate, that it could never speak what was there, that it only spoke itself. He thought… — A.S. Byatt Copy Share Image
“ We must come to grief and regret anyway - and I for one would rather regret the reality than its phantasm, knowledge than… — A.S. Byatt Copy Share Image
“Roland had learned to see himself, theoretically, as a crossing-place for a number of systems, all loosely connected. He had been trained to see… — A.S. Byatt Copy Share Image
“She thought human thoughts and stone thoughts. The latter were slow, patchily coloured, textured and extreme, both hot and cold. They did not translate… — A.S. Byatt Copy Share Image
“She looked, quickly, quickly, it was better than before, thanked him and averted her eyes. She came to trust him with her disintegration.” — A.S. Byatt Copy Share Image
