“Imagining the end of things, when you are a child, is perhaps impossible. The thin child, despite the war that was raging,… — 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
“I would not for the whole world diminish you. I know it is usual in these circumstances to protest—"I love you for… — A.S. Byatt Whole world 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
“You do not seem aware, for all of your knowledge of the great world I do not frequent, of the usual response… — A.S. Byatt Correspondence Copy Share Image
“What is it my dear?" Ah, how can we bear it?" Bear what?" This. For so short a time. How can we… — A.S. Byatt Copy Share Image
“[Loki] was beautiful, that was always affirmed, but his beauty was hard to fix or to see, for he was always glimmering,… — A.S. Byatt Beauty Copy Share Image
“Now and then there are readings that make the hairs on the neck, the non-existent pelt, stand on end and tremble, when… — A.S. Byatt Books Copy Share Image
“In the morning the whole world had a strange new smell. It was the smell of the aftermath, a green smell, a… — A.S. Byatt Smell Copy Share Image
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“He was a compact, clearcut man, with precise features, a lot of very soft black hair, and thoughtful dark brown eyes. He… — 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 Familiar places Copy Share Image
“There was a moment during this time, when his face was on hers, cheek on cheek, brow on brow, heavy skull on… — A.S. Byatt Time 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… — A.S. Byatt Fashion Copy Share Image
“What is read and understood and contemplated and intellectually grasped is our own, madam, to live and work with. A lifetime's study… — A.S. Byatt Easy way Copy Share Image
“Blackadder was fifty-four and had come to editing Ash out of pique. He was the son and grandson of Scottish schoolmasters. His… — A.S. Byatt Confidence Copy Share Image
“She had had the idea that the mineral world was a world of perfect, inanimate forms, with an unchanging mathematical order of… — A.S. Byatt Crystals Copy Share Image
“It is possible for a writer to make, or remake at least, for a reader, the primary pleasures of eating, or drinking,… — A.S. Byatt Books Copy Share Image
“He muttered to himself. Why bother. Why does this matter so much. What difference does it make to anything if I solve… — A.S. Byatt Blue Copy Share Image
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