There are moments when you feel free, moments when you have energy, moments when you have hope, but you can't rely on… — Anita Brookner Copy Share Image
“Old times, sad times. I feel better about them now than I did then.” — Anita Brookner Copy Share Image
“I remember at that time I went to the hairdresser's. I did this regularly, but I remember that visit for two particular… — Anita Brookner Copy Share Image
Life... is not simply a series of exciting new ventures. The future is not always a whole new ball game. There tends… — Anita Brookner Copy Share Image
“I reminded myself of someone, but someone I had not seen for a long time.” — Anita Brookner Copy Share Image
In real life, of course, it is the hare that wins. Every time. Look around you. — Anita Brookner Copy Share Image
“[…] nobody grows up. Everyone carries around all the selves that they have ever been, intact, waiting to be reactivated in moments… — Anita Brookner Copy Share Image
In real life, it is the hare who wins. Every time. Look around you. And in any case it is my contention… — Anita Brookner Copy Share Image
It is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. hares have no time to read. — Anita Brookner Copy Share Image
If I were happy, married with six children, I wouldn't be writing. And I doubt if I should want to. — Anita Brookner Copy Share Image
You have no idea how promising the world begins to look once you have decided to have it all for yourself. And how much… — Anita Brookner Copy Share Image
I never learnt Hebrew because my health was fragile, and it was thought that learning Hebrew would be an added burden. I regret it,… — Anita Brookner Copy Share Image
You can never betray the people who are dead, so you go on being a public Jew; the dead can't answer slurs, but I'm… — Anita Brookner Copy Share Image
The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule. — Anita Brookner Copy Share Image
I need noise and interruptions and irritation: irritation and discomfort are a great starter. The loneliness of doing it any other way would kill… — Anita Brookner Copy Share Image
I am not a romantic. I am a domestic animal. I do not sigh and yearn for extravagant displays of passion, for the grand… — Anita Brookner Copy Share Image
“It seemed to me that I, rather than he, had brought this about, and my despair was extreme. For now that I knew that… — Anita Brookner Copy Share Image
I was brought up to look after my parents. My family were Polish Jews, and we lived with my grandmother, with uncles and aunts… — Anita Brookner Copy Share Image
“We shall none of us ever make love again, she thought, and did not much care. Life had not been too harsh; the sea… — Anita Brookner Copy Share Image
