38 Quotes About The-secret-history

In fact, I can't think of much I'd like better than for him to step into the room right now, glasses fogged and smelling of damp wool, shaking the rain from his hair like an old dog and saying: 'Dickie, my boy, what you got for a thirsty old man to drink tonight?

I believe having a great diversity of teachers is harmful and confusing for a young mind, in the same way I believe that it is better to know one book intimately than a hundred superficially

We had not spoken about the incident in my room several nights before and, in the drowsy silence of the car, I felt the need to make things plain.“You know, Francis,” I said.“What?”It seemed the best thing was just to come right out and say it. “You know,” I said, “I’m really not attracted to you. I mean, not that—”“Isn’t that interesting,” he said coolly. “I’m really not attracted to you, either.”“But—”“You were there.”We drove the rest of the way to school in a not very comfortable silence.

Forgive me, for all the things I did but mostly for the ones that I did not.

Upon meeting Julian Morrow, one has the impression that he is a man of extraordinary sympathy and warmth. But what you call his 'Asiatic serenity' is, I think, a mask for great coldness. The face one shows him he invariably reflects back at one, creating the illusion of warmth and depth when in fact he is brittle and shallow as a mirror.

I believehaving a great diversity of teachers is harmful and confusing for a young mind, in the same way I believe that it is better to know one book intimately than a hundred superficially

Forgive me, for all the things I did but mostly for the ones I did not.

It was if the charming theatrical curtain had dropped away and I saw him for the first time as he really was: not the benign old sage, the indulgent and protective good-parent of my dreams, but ambiguous, a moral neutral, whose beguiling trappings concealed a being watchful, capricious, and heartless.

Ще ни се да мислим, че в старата и изтъркана фраза amor vincit omnia има нещо вярно. Уви, ако съм научил нещо през краткия си живот, то е, че точно тази банална реплика е лъжа. Любовта не побеждава всичко.