1,162 Quotes by Iris Murdoch

I'm being led — on some dark way.

She stood there awkwardly, incapable of further theatre.

Franca, darling, let's be simple.""And move quietly in the dark.

Perhaps there was an intimacy which did not need words.

Now, when she felt so deeply connected to him, they were finally estranged.

She tasted for the first time honey-sweet and dangerous happiness: dangerous because, as she before long began to learn, precarious.

He wanted to be a universal man . . . and I suppose that isn't possible now. He belongs in fifteenth-century Italy. This age doesn't suit him.

Since she had been looking after him she had felt bound to him by a strange silent love.

(he would not attend at all to anything which did not interest him)