The Message to the Planet
Iris Murdoch
Top 10 Best Quotes
“I don't think I can marry, I'm not fit for it, I'm not real enough. That's the trouble. I'm a puppet that's realised what's wrong with itself and it's horrible. I'm propped up somewhere all alone, watching the real people go past. I'm propped up crying in a corner.”
“Perhaps there was an intimacy which did not need words.”
“Your infatuation will end in tears.”
“He felt misery, loneliness, a terrible need for love.”
“She was not just a wild creature, she was a wounded creature.”
“He was glad that he had expressed to her, however blunderingly, what he felt. He was glad that he had held her hand.”
“Anywhere is dangerous if you carry danger with you.”
“Your coldness has ruined my life. All right, you didn't mean it, all right I was a schoolgirl, but you could have been kinder to someone who said they loved you, you could have been gentle and grateful.”
“She tasted for the first time honey-sweet and dangerous happiness: dangerous because, as she before long began to learn, precarious.”
“Now, when she felt so deeply connected to him, they were finally estranged.”
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