Poor George
Paula Fox
Top 10 Best Quotes
“You light a match and the house burns down.”
“When he had first known her, the violent decisiveness with which she judged people had charmed him. For Emma, people were enemies or protectors. Even though the charm had worn off, he sometimes envied her–her sense of others devoid of the kind of complex and enervating reflections he was given to–for within her limits she was clear while he, he thought, moved in a permanent blur.”
“There’s something flabby about teaching in a place like this,” He said. “If you don’t have to exert yourself once in a while, you begin–or at least I do–to feel like a headwaiter leading people to the second-best table.”
“She was thinking of the advantages she would have if only she were someone else.”
“You know there isn’t much to do in life once you fall though the surface of things.”
“You don't know what you feel, he said sharply. That's what manners are for--to keep things going when one doesn't know.”
“Women like Joe. They fall for him in that between-trains way.”
“The children aren't enough now. One constructs such a fine balance, you know, very fine, matchsticks in fact ...”
“Sometimes he though her coolness not so much a cover as the thing itself, an emptiness”
“People narrow to their choices said the other woman. That's not the same as changing.”
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Book Keywords:
married-life, teaching, discontent, middle-age, infidelity, routine, social-behaviour, boredom, privilege
