A Sight for Sore Eyes Quotes

“The sensations he had were shared by many of the young, poor and beautiful: how unfair it was that they should be denied benefits which the old and ugly enjoyed.”
― Ruth Rendell, A Sight for Sore Eyes

“People were, as he had long suspected, uniformly vile and rotten, vastly inferior to things. Objects never let you down.”
― Ruth Rendell, A Sight for Sore Eyes

“They remained the same and could be an endless source of pleasure and satisfaction. There might be people, or a person, of whom that was also true, but he had never, by the age of eighteen, come across any of them.”
― Ruth Rendell, A Sight for Sore Eyes

“His school had been so committed to establishing equality that the staff told a pupil he or she had done well only if they could tell every other member of the class the same thing.”
― Ruth Rendell, A Sight for Sore Eyes

“Was it possible people were heavier dead than alive?”
― Ruth Rendell, A Sight for Sore Eyes