123 Quotes About The-message-to-the-planet

Perhaps one could not live with such knowledge. One might die for it, or of it.

The agony was of suddenly feeling herself so separate and so secret.

She thought, I shall never tell it to Jack, the strange love which I feel for this doomed man, as if he were a dog lying in the road with a broken back.

What happened after that, and will be related later, was something entirely unexpected and so awful that Ludens had never spoken about it afterwards to anyone.

Your infatuation will end in tears.

I don't think I can marry, I'm not fit for it, I'm not real enough. That's the trouble. I'm a puppet that's realised what's wrong with itself and it's horrible. I'm propped up somewhere all alone, watching the real people go past. I'm propped up crying in a corner.

Ludens experienced, as an extra pain, an intimation of the happiness he might have felt in such a place.

I'm just one long disappointment.

Ludens thought, why can't I do that, why can't I just ask a woman to hold my hand, why can't I ask Franca to!