6 Quotes by Anthony McDonald

Are we all just lightning rods for other people's destinies? Is that what it's all about

It was far better, he thought, just to get on with life yourself, to have your own adventures and make your own mistakes, without raising a banner over them that proclaimed: I'm this, or I'm that; of this party or of the other one.

Oh I don't know,' he said. 'But maybe, maybe love should be a kind of journey

I've never had a love letter before. Not from anyone. It is a most wonderful thing to receive. I realise that it makes a present to me of your life, not just your love.

Exposing impressionable young men to the glories of opera on their first evening at home with you tended to put the kiss of death on things, as Oliver, to his cost, had discovered over the years.

When whisky talks it rarely counsels prudence.