22 Quotes by Charles Finch

The river was glossy, narrow, and quick, a beautiful green color, with the white and maroon striped college punts strung along the near bank. .... The sun, westering, heavy, and hazy, was in those great final throes of energy before the sky whitens and clears, and evening comes. I stood and watched it. That immense body, dying trillions of feet away from me, still warming my face with its steady insensate chemistries.

‎He often envied people who hadn't read his favourite books. They had such happiness before them.

‎'He often envied people who hadn't read his favourite books. They had such happiness before them.

There's nowhere that life feels more eternal, your dimwit youth more important, than Paris.

If you look for endings you can always find one, but I truly felt as if I had used up the last of my youth, if youth is that finite stage of life when it all feels expeditionary, inexact.

When you're finally a grown-up, one of the things you find is that there are no grown-ups.

Like everyone I slipped into adulthood like a delinquent through the back door.

The two things, love and snow, that make the world look fresh again

The Thames was beautiful, dark, and swift beneath the billion yellow and white lights of the city…