Graham Greene, The End Of The Affair Quotes
A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.
It's a strange thing to discover and to believe that you are loved when you know that there is nothing in you for anybody but a parent or a God to love.
Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.
There are times when a lover longs to be also a father and a brother: he is jealous of the years he hasn't shared.
What have we all got to expect that we allow ourselves to be so lined with disappointment?
I can never think of you as a friend. You can do without a friend.
I refused to believe that love could take any other form than mine: I measured love by the extent of my jealousy, and by that standard of course she could not love me at all.
What are we doing to each other? Because I know that I am doing to him exactly what he is doing to me. We are sometimes so happy, and never in our lives have we known more unhappiness.
Insecurity is the worst sense that lovers feel: sometimes the most humdrum desireless marriage seems better. Insecurity twists meanings and poisons trust.
... and then beginning to go back to what you can't even remember.
-"-A book takes me a year to write. It's too hard work for a revenge."-"If you knew how little you had to revenge...".
But if love had to die, I wanted it to die quickly. It was as though our love were a small creature caught in a trap and bleeding to death: I had to shut my eyes and wring its neck.
