I felt that I was leaving part of myself behind, and that wherever I went afterwards I should feel the lack of it, and search for it hopelessly, as ghosts are said to do, frequenting the spots where they buried material treasures without which they cannot pay their way to the nether world.
Evelyn WaughThe anguished suspense of watching the lips you hunger for, framing the words, the death sentence, of sheer triteness!
Evelyn WaughSoon someone would say the fatal words, "Well, I think itโs time for me to go to bed.
Evelyn WaughThe Roman Catholic Church has the unique power of keeping remote control over human souls which have once been part of her. G.K. Chesterton has compared this to the fisherman's line, which allows the fish the illusion of free play in the water and yet has him by the hook; in his own time the fisherman by a 'twitch upon the thread' draws the fish to land.
Evelyn Waugh