“ 'Can't really say?' Nick said, and heard, as he sometimes did, his own father's note of evasive sympathy. It was how his family sidled round its various crises; nothing was named, and you never knew for sure if the… — Alan Hollinghurst Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“...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 Copy Share Image
...all his longings came out as a kind of disdain for what he longed for. — Alan Hollinghurst Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Now that I had actually made love, more astonishingly now that I had been made love to, the fantasies were subtly undermined. — Alan Hollinghurst Copy Share Image
“The pursuit of love seemed to need the cultivation of indifference.” — Alan Hollinghurst Copy Share Image
What the problem was was this colossal redundancy, the squandering of brilliant technique on cheap material, ... — Alan Hollinghurst Copy Share Image
“Delight is délice, délit is a misdemeanour' 'Well, it's bloody close...' 'Well, they often are…” — Alan Hollinghurst Copy Share Image
“It was the time of year when the atmosphere streamed with unexpected hints and memories, and a paradoxical sense of renewal.” — Alan Hollinghurst Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
He wanted pure compliments, just as he wanted unconditional love. — Alan Hollinghurst Copy Share Image
