When you're young you prefer the vulgar months, the fullness of the seasons. As you grow older you learn to like the in-between times, the months that can't make up their minds. Perhaps it's a way of admitting that things can't ever bear the same certainty again.


Flaubert's Parrot (1984)

Julian Barnes Quotes

When you're young you prefer the vulgar months, the fullness of the seasons. As you grow older you learn to like the in-between times, the months...

When you're young you prefer the vulgar months, the fullness of the seasons. As you grow older you learn to like the in-between times, the months...

When you're young you prefer the vulgar months, the fullness of the seasons. As you grow older you learn to like the in-between times, the months...

When you're young you prefer the vulgar months, the fullness of the seasons. As you grow older you learn to like the in-between times, the months...