Anita Brookner - Hotel du Lac (1984)

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Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything.

Anita Brookner

You have no idea how promising the world begins to look once you have decided to have it all for yourself. And how much healthier your decisions are once they become entirely selfish.

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She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.

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In real life, of course, it is the hare who wins. Every time. Look around you. And in any case it is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market.... Hares have no time to read. They are too busy winning the game.

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That sun, that light had faded, and she had faded with them. Now she was as grey as the season itself.

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I am not a romantic. I am a domestic animal. I do not sigh and yearn for extravagant displays of passion, for the grand affair, the world well lost for love. I know all that, and know that it leaves you lonely. No, what I crave is the simplicity of routine. An evening walk, arm in arm, in fine weather. A game of cards. Time for idle talk. Preparing a meal together.

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