

“Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all.”
― Brideshead Revisited
― Brideshead Revisited

“She told me later that she had made a kind of note of me in her mind, as, scanning the shelf for a particular book, one will sometimes have one's attention caught by another, take it down, glance at the title page and saying "I must read that, too, when I've the time," replace it and continue the search.”
― Brideshead Revisited
― Brideshead Revisited

“O God, make me good, but not yet.”
― Brideshead Revisited
― Brideshead Revisited

“You can't ever tell what's going to hurt people.”
― A Handful of Dust
― A Handful of Dust
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