Enduring Love Quotes
"It was a time when other outcomes were still possible."
"What idiocy, to be racing into this story and its labyrinths."
"I love you more now I’ve seen you go completely mad."
"This was a reunion after a separation of six weeks."
"I can scarcely bid you goodbye, even in a letter."
"I don’t mind what we do, we don’t have to do anything. I just want to hold you."
"We need to help each other. And that means we’ll have to love each other even harder."
"Our misery in the aftermath was proof that we knew we had failed ourselves."
"You can sit among the TV aerials and dishes, the roofing pitch underfoot wrinkled and dusty like an elephant’s hide, and look toward the greenery of Hyde Park and hear the tranquillizing thunder of West London’s traffic."
"I could feel the rope in my hands again as I examined the welts."
"The scales tipping, from altruism to self-interest."
"But if we had been with him, stayed with him, no one would have died."
"He was the hero, and it was the weak who had sent him to his death."
"You’re playing games with me, all the time, and you’re pretending."
"Everything we do together, everything we are, is in God’s care, and our love takes its existence, form, and meaning from His love."
"I was so loathsome that as I retreated from the room I touched my pocket to confirm, or give the impression of confirming, the presence of the stapler."
"I did not trust myself. Not since my attack on Clarissa’s privacy."
"What I was thinking of again as I pressed the doorbell was that stapler, and how dishonestly we can hold things together for ourselves."
"It suits you and it protects you to tell yourself that I’m a madman."
"The power of life and death, Joe. God has it, and we who are in His image have it too."
"It’s a warmth, it’s a heat, and it can burn you, Joe, it can consume you."
"His love isn’t always gentle. How can it be when it has to last, when you can never shake it off?"
"God’s love may take the form of wrath. It can show itself to us as calamity."
"The more we find out about the intricacies of His creation, the more we realize how little we know and how little we are."
"Everything else, Parry included, is irrelevant."
"Better to allow the occasional couple to be eaten midrapture than dilute by one jot a vigorous procreational urge."
"It was like a long and slow remembering, and as each minute passed and we did not speak, our recovery gathered its own quiet strength."
"I thought there must be a point to it. You had to be leading me on for a reason."
"Please forgive me, Joe, for what I did yesterday, for what I tried to do."
"That evening after the accident—it was quite clear from the things you were saying then that you were very troubled by the thought that it might have been you who let go of the rope first."
"From day one you saw him as an opponent and you set about defeating him, and you—we—paid a high price."
"Together we might have deflected him from the course he took."
"I hated being angry, and I was scared by your anger."
"You were manic, and driven, and very lonely."
"You went it alone, Joe. Right from the start, before you knew anything about Parry, you became so intense and strange and worked up about him."
"You went your own way, you denied him everything, and that allowed his fantasies, and ultimately his hatred, to flourish."
"You saved my life, but perhaps you put my life in jeopardy—by drawing Parry in, by overreacting all along the way."
"A stranger invaded our lives, and the first thing that happened was that you became a stranger to me."
"I think we need some time apart. Or at least I do."
"We’ve loved each other passionately and loyally. I always thought our love was the kind that was meant to go on and on."
"What’s the point? It’s beautiful here and we’re still unhappy."
"The years harden us into what we are, and her letter appeared to me simply unreasonable."
"Imagine the smallest possible bit of water that can exist. So tiny no one could ever see it."