The Last Enchantments
Charles Finch
Top 10 Best Quotes
“When you're finally a grown-up, one of the things you find is that there are no grown-ups.”
“The two things, love and snow, that make the world look fresh again”
“There's nowhere that life feels more eternal, your dimwit youth more important, than Paris.”
“I thought, too, about time. How fleet it is, and how certain, and like death how indifferent to our commentary upon it. Once not long before we had been boys and girls, and soon we would be middle-aged, thickening with rueful pleasure toward the thinness of old age.”
“Like everyone I slipped into adulthood like a delinquent through the back door.”
“What fools American can be for England”
“There is nobody as hopelessly vulgar as a British aristocrat...”
“The river was glossy, narrow, and quick, a beautiful green color, with the white and maroon striped college punts strung along the near bank. .... The sun, westering, heavy, and hazy, was in those great final throes of energy before the sky whitens and clears, and evening comes. I stood and watched it. That immense body, dying trillions of feet away from me, still warming my face with its steady insensate chemistries.”
“Once in a while dancing is immaculate, a perfection: you understand why raves exist: when you’ve timed the drinks correctly and they lift your mood and your energy, the songs are ones you all know, and you look around at the girls, their happy lost faces, their beautiful bare stomachs, their jangly long earrings, something limbic, their skin just damp with sweat to the touch, the whole thing…”
“The Thames was beautiful, dark, and swift beneath the billion yellow and white lights of the city…”
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