31 Quotes by Alan Hollinghurst

He thought other resourceful people would have come, over the years, to look at it, and that the house would wear its own mild frown of self-regard, a certain half-friendly awareness of being admired. It would live up to its fame. But really there was nothing to see. The upstairs windows seemed to ponder blankly on the reflections of clouds.

There is a sort of aesthetic poverty about conservatism.

He seemed to fade pretty quickly. He found himself yearning to know of their affairs, their successes, the novels and the new ideas that the few who remembered him might say he never knew, he never lived to find out.

He saw that first love had come with a bundle of other firsts, which he took hold of like a wonderful but worrying bouquet.