Sunday, September 21, 2025

Sunday, September 14, 2025

The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene. Quotes II

-These were the times of ugliness when he loved her, when pity and responsibility reached the intensity of a passion.
-Women depended so much on pride, pride in themselves, their husbands, their surroundings. They were seldom proud, it seemed to him, of the invisible. 
-It has always been his responsibility to maintain happiness in those he loved. 

Sunday, September 7, 2025

The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene. Quotes

 -He wanted passionately to be indistinguishable on the surface from other men. 

-Scobie built his home by a process of reduction. 

-It had always been his responsibility to maintain happiness in those he loved. 

-It was silence that stopped him working, silence in which he might look up and see tears waiting in the eyes for his attention. 

-It is seldom that anything is quite so bad as one fears.