The Unburied Quotes

“When you love, you entrust to that person your sense of your own worth, and if that person throws you aside, you believe profoundly and utterly that it is because you are worthless. That is a kind of death.”
― Charles Palliser, The Unburied

“Some people have a talent for being happy and others appear to find unhappiness almost as if they sought it.”
― Charles Palliser, The Unburied

“The greatest actors can create a human being before the very eyes of spectators – not show them something beforehand like a puppet. To go out onto the stage and become the character at a moment of crisis and speak without knowing what you are going to say until the words come out! To court that danger and to triumph, that is the great adventure that life offers. The incomparable adventure. Don’t you see that?”
― Charles Palliser, The Unburied

“We only value ourselves as others value us, for it might be said that we hold ourselves in trust for others.”
― Charles Palliser, The Unburied

“There are people who invite betrayal. They are demanding towards themselves and don't realize how hard they are on other people. They make it difficult for others not to fail them. And in some cases they even take a grim pleasure from being let down.”
― Charles Palliser, The Unburied

“When a crime is investigated, the explanation that is adopted is not the one that best accounts for all the circumstances, but the one that best serves the purposes of those carrying out the investigation.”
― Charles Palliser, The Unburied

“To think of what he must have done to have inflicted so much damage /.../. It was hard to believe. It was hard to believe anything good about out species. Was this what we were - cruel apes who wore clothes and washed and perfumed our bodies?”
― Charles Palliser, The Unburied

“One sees more clearly in the fog because one has to look harder.”
― Charles Palliser, The Unburied

“Happiness ... is much more than merely the absence of misery.”
― Charles Palliser, The Unburied

“We don’t exist in and for ourselves but only in as much as we are re-created in the imagination of another person— by entering that person’s life as fully as possible. I mean, entering it imaginatively, intellectually, physically and emotionally with all the conflicts that that makes inevitable.”
― Charles Palliser, The Unburied