22 Quotes by Charles Finch

I guess the lesson is you can’t go everywhere. You should still go everywhere you can.

Of course, that’s one of the dreams of modernist literature, whether realist or fantastic: that the more stories we tell each other about such tragedies, the fewer of them there will be. We’re still waiting for the results.

I thought, too, about time. How fleet it is, and how certain, and like death how indifferent to our commentary upon it. Once not long before we had been boys and girls, and soon we would be middle-aged, thickening with rueful pleasure toward the thinness of old age.

Her strength was in the integrity of her actions; she never compromised what she believed she ought to do.

What fools American can be for England

There is nobody as hopelessly vulgar as a British aristocrat...

Suddenly Dallington burst into speech. 'Listen, Lenox - I want to apologize...'Lenox waved a dismissive hand. 'You're young,' he said. 'There are many lessons before you, some harder than this one... All too often things are blurry, though, John. It's the way of the world. Humans are blurry creatures,

When you’re my age, you’ll see that it is wiser to make your own decisions than let time make decisions for you.

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