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A silence followed, while the two men contemplated dying for love.

Love Quotes / Arctic Summer Quotes Dying Quotes

He had it now, he thought. What he had been searching for till now: the heart of it, the central, engendering event.

Arctic Summer Quotes Engendering Quotes

That echo. It played in his head at unexpected moments, repeating certain sounds and making nonsense of them. But could you remember an echo? Memory itself was like another kind of echo, everything duplicating endlessly, in shadow versions of itself.

Arctic Summer Quotes Echo Quotes Memory Quotes

Of what earthly use were novels? How did they help anybody?

Arctic Summer Quotes Novels Quotes

A mixture of rapture and cowardice. No action, but all that quivering!

Arctic Summer Quotes Cowardice Quotes Rapture Quotes

Fire and water and smoke and incense and chanting and bells and butter and blood: this was a language whose syllables were translated into physical terms; a language of the elements. It was a language that he hoped might speak to him one day.

Arctic Summer Quotes Language Quotes

...he is incapable of examining his own pain like a spore on a slide and finding it interesting, interesting. If your own pain is interesting to yo, how much more detached will you be from somebody else's pain...

The Indians were inside their bodies, he decided, in a way that the British were not. His own flesh impeded his spirit.

Arctic Summer Quotes British Quotes Flesh Quotes Indians Quotes Spirit Quotes

Goldie was a believer in the imperial project, which is to say, in the civilising power of social progress.

Imperial Quotes Progress Quotes

I am happy to see you, Masood.”“Happy? Happy? What a pale, pathetic English word. You must not be ‘happy’ to see me. No, you must be enraptured, transported! You must be overjoyed. I have no use for ‘happy’.

Arctic Summer Quotes Happy Quotes

My dear, he talked of peering into catamites’ anuses, if you can conceive of anything more wonderful.

Anuses Quotes Arctic Summer Quotes Catamites Quotes

Race and class were a kind of destiny; very little could dent them. Morgan himself had been decanted back into the vessel that had made him.

Arctic Summer Quotes Class Quotes Destiny Quotes Race Quotes

All have their foolishness, and this is mine.

Arctic Summer Quotes Foolishness Quotes

Other people might have to confess their sins, but he, Morgan, could only confess their absence.

Arctic Summer Quotes Sins Quotes

I blame it on the heat. And Morgan had gone to India, and the heat had not undone him. He had remained respectable.

Arctic Summer Quotes Undone Quotes

All of them would understand, as he did now, that he had crossed a line in himself, he had left their world behind, the decent world of tea parties and suburban witticisms.

Arctic Summer Quotes Line Quotes Suburban Quotes Tea parties Quotes Witticisms Quotes World Quotes

Even in one’s most physical moments, the real craving was for love.

Love Quotes / Arctic Summer Quotes

Why did people believe it was only the flesh that binds?

Arctic Summer Quotes Flesh Quotes

He feared at certain moments that the only new knowledge he would take away from this country was learning how to swim and use the telephone.

Knowledge Quotes / Arctic Summer Quotes

It is always an attractive moment when curiosity takes hold.

Arctic Summer Quotes Curiosity Quotes

To be honest and to be fair were not always the same thing.

Arctic Summer Quotes

What I don’t understand about your type is that you want to emulate the other side. You kick up such a commotion about being different, and all you want is to be the same.

Arctic Summer Quotes Different Quotes Type Quotes

He didn’t depend so much on the good opinion of others to feel complete. Nor did he expect happiness as his right any longer; he knew it was only for the strong.

Happiness Quotes / Arctic Summer Quotes

There were some, naturally, who would understand, and he wrote for them, or for himself. Anyhow, some idealised reader who would accept everything, and forgive.

Arctic Summer Quotes Reader Quotes

There was something humiliating, too, in a display of grief when the relationship had been unwitnessed. No, this was to be a private suffering, like lust or literature, lived out mostly in his dreams.

Arctic Summer Quotes

He is wearing he same black pants from yesterday, but no shirt, his body is brown and hard, perfectly proportioned. He knows that he is beautiful and somehow his makes him ugly.

Beauty Quotes

What did love mean if it was doled out so carelessly, with no thought of consequence?

Love Quotes / Arctic Summer Quotes

under the elaborate filigree of language, hadn’t it always been about this deferment, this selfishness, this veil drawn over the obvious truth, which was that Masood simply did not care enough? Morgan could not look at the possibility for long, but at least he could look at it, and over the coming days he took it out and hurt himself with it at particular moments when he was alone. He had always been slow to comprehend his own feelings, and it came only gradually to him how disappointed he was.

Arctic Summer Quotes

There are many monsters, oh, many!

Monsters Quotes

There was no reason why he should not lift the veil aside.Well, there was Lily. He could imagine his mother’s face if he told her he was giving up meat and alcohol and going to live off the land and make sandals. Not to mention homogenic love. The veil might be thin, but in some cases it was insurmountable.

Arctic Summer Quotes Veil Quotes

What he sensed more than anything else was kindness – a kindness of a human and immediate sort. It was surprising how very radical this simple emotion could be.

Kindness Quotes / Arctic Summer Quotes

No emotion was supposed to cross the great divide of class. Affection could erase all hierarchy; in this was the danger, and the delight.

Affection Quotes Arctic Summer Quotes Class Quotes Emotion Quotes Hierarchy Quotes

...if you are names without a nature, it's not because I don't remember, no, the opposite is true, you are remembered in me as an endless stirring and turning. But it's for this precisely that you must forgive me, because in every story of obsession there's only one character, only one plot. I am writing about myself alone, it's all I know, and for this reason I have always failed in every love, which is to say at the very heart of life.

In a Strange Room Quotes

The only defence against raw, naked feeling was reason. Understanding made sadness easier to bear.

Arctic Summer Quotes

There were only certain intimacies one could hope to survive.

Arctic Summer Quotes Intimacies Quotes

Past a certain point, maybe, a person's character defines itself and stays fixed in your mind.

The Good Doctor Quotes

He has always had a dread of crossing borders, he doesn't like to leave what's known and safe for the blank space beyond in which anything can happen. Everything at times of transition takes on a symbolic weight and power. But this too is why he travels. The world you're moving through flows into another one inside, nothing stays divided any more, this stands for that, weather for mood, landscape for feeling, for every object there is a corresponding inner gesture, everything turns into metaphor. The border line on a map, but also drawn inside himself somewhere.

In a Strange Room Quotes

Poetry was syllable and rhythm. Poetry was the measurement of breath. Poetry was time make audible. Poetry evoked the present moment; poetry was the antidote to history. Poetry was language free from habit.

Inspirational Quotes / Galgut Quotes Imposter Quotes Poetry Quotes The Impostor Quotes Writing Quotes

There's no theme, no moral to be learned, except for the knowledge that lightning can strike from a clear blue sky one morning and take away everything you've built, everything you've counted on, leaving wreckage and no meaning behind. It can happen to anyone, it can happen to you.

In a Strange Room Quotes Reality Quotes

Things happen once only and are never repeated, never return. Except in memory.

In a Strange Room Quotes

The funny thing is, I don't care too much. You think you love something so badly, but when it's gone you find out you don't care so much.

The Good Doctor Quotes

Forgive me my friend, I tried to hold on, but you fell, you fell

In a Strange Room Quotes

Memory is fiction . . . All memory is a way of reconstructing the past. . . The act of narrating a memory is the act of creating fiction. [Armitstead, Claire. “Damon Galgut talks about his novel In a Strange Room.” The Guardian. 10 September 2010.]

Fiction Quotes In a Strange Room Quotes Memory Quotes

As a result, he is hardly ever happy in the place where he is, something in him is already moving forward to the next place, and yet he is never going towards something, always away, away

In a Strange Room Quotes

In his clearest moments he thinks he has lost the ability to love, people or places or things, most of all the person and place and thing that he is. Without love nothing has value, nothing can be made to matter very much.

Love Quotes / In a Strange Room Quotes

A journey is a gesture inscribed in space, it vanishes even as it's made. You go from one place to another place, and on to somewhere else again, and already behind you there is no trace that you were ever there.

Travel Quotes / In a Strange Room Quotes Self discovery Quotes

If I had done this, if I had said that, in the end you are always more tormented by what you didn't do than what you did, actions already performed can always be rationalized in time, the neglected deed might have changed the world.

Action Quotes Choice Quotes In a Strange Room Quotes Looking back Quotes