39 Quotes About Narrator

Judge that boy if you must; for debauchery, for objectifying innocence... but before you finalize your verdict, oh innocent reader, I beg you to scan again that last stanza. What you and I overlooked in our cloud of perversion and nasty objectification was the unrestrained joy of a little girl playing dress-up for the very first time.

It might be most dramatically effective to begin the tale at the moment when Arnold Baffin rang me up and said, "Bradley, could you come round here please, I think I have just killed my wife.

I almost forgot to mention another fox I know of—a very wicked fox indeed. But you are tired of hearing about foxes now, so I won't go on.

Have you forgotten about our fox?The one who now had an eye for beauty, and an inclination to set it apart from other things . . .

For the moment however behold me sitting with Priscilla and Francis. A domestic interior. It is about ten o'clock in the evening and the curtains are drawn.

Then the front doorbell (already too long delayed by my rambling narrative) rang.

I have been on the whole a lucky man. And I would say that even now. Perhaps especially I would say it now.

Maybe she was not really like that. It's just that I would prefer you to think that what happened to her was justified.

For you [muses] are divine, and you have the gifts of memory and story; but only the faintest echo of the great tale has come down to me