The Doctor's Wife Quotes

“The Protestants don't believe in Britain and the Catholics don't believe in God. And none of us believes in the future.”
― Brian Moore, The Doctor's Wife

“She held him, her arms tight about him, she had never understood it, but when they met, she and her sister and brothers, suddenly all of their wives, husbands, and children seemed members of another race, no part of the Family, that family whose allegiances antedated all others.”
― Brian Moore, The Doctor's Wife

“How did I get so bogged down in ordinariness that even this once I couldn't do the spontaneous thing, the thing I really wanted to do. The future is forbidden to no one. Unless we forbid it ourselves.”
― Brian Moore, The Doctor's Wife

“What about those men you read about in newspaper stories who walk out of their homes saying they are going down to the corner to buy cigarettes and are never heard from again? This is Paris. I am here. What if I never go back?”
― Brian Moore, The Doctor's Wife