Eleanor Catton, The Luminaries Quotes

Love cannot be reduced to a catalogue of reasons why, and a catalogue of reasons cannot be put together into love.

Solitude is a condition best enjoyed in company.

for Pop, who sees the starsand Jude, who hears their music

He liked lonely places, because he never really felt alone.

Suffering, he thought later, could rob a man of his empathy, could turn him selfish, could make him depreciate all other sufferers.

We observe that one of the great attributes of discretion is that it can mask ignorance of all the most common and lowly varieties, and Walter Moody was nothing if not excessively discreet.

I wish to be able to call myself deserving of my lot, ' Moody said carefully. 'Luck is by nature underserved.

Pritchard was lonely, and like most lonely souls, he saw happy couples everywhere.

What an unrequited love it is, this thirst! But is it love, when it is unrequited?