The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.
Anita BrooknerI was brought up among the sort of self-important women who had a husband as one has an alibi.
Anita BrooknerWriting novels preserves you in a state of innocence - a lot passes you by - simply because your attention is otherwise diverted.
Anita BrooknerYou can never betray the people who are dead, so you go on being a public Jew; the dead can't answer slurs, but I'm here. I would love to think that Jesus wants me for a sunbeam, but he doesn't.
Anita Brookner