Henry and Cato
Iris Murdoch
Top 10 Best Quotes
“One should go easy on smashing other people's lies. Better to concentrate on one's own.”
“His heart ached in such a familiar way, and the very familiarity of it pained him.”
“You see, nobody cares about me except you. You don't know what that's like. You've always had people who cared. You've always had people. I've never had anybody. No wonder I feel frustrated.”
“You don't know what it's like to be me, you don't know what it's like to be all tattered and destroyed inside.”
“Tell her I was young once and star-bright Who am now invisible . . .”
“I've somehow run myself into hell. There must be many entrances.”
“I want you to be able to see me, and as my love for you is so much of me (all of me, making me more than myself) then you must see that too.”
“I lead a worthless life, he thought, I live in unreality and untruth. If only there could be total change, regeneration, escape. If only I could run and run and get back to the people, back to where real wholesome, ordinary life is being lived. I have given myself a mean role and cannot now stop enacting it. Oh if only I could get out! But even as he thought these familiar thoughts he knew: unreality is my reality, untruth is my truth, I am too old now and I have no other way.”
“I know girls aren't supposed to tell, but I've got to tell—just in case you should fail to love me because you never knew how much I loved you. I want not to have to say later—I wish I'd told him.”
“I did love her in a way, but it was under the sign of doom.”
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