Undue Influence Quotes

“Boundaries keep people out; mine served only to keep me in.”
― Anita Brookner, Undue Influence

“Besides, kindness, of the same undiscriminating sort, is not what one is looking for in a man, though perhaps it should be. One rather looks for its opposite, a certain combative excitement. Now I had captive in my own home a man who had probably never understood this.”
― Anita Brookner, Undue Influence

“We were both dutiful, of course, my mother because she was a dutiful woman: I myself felt less humble but knew that life was only simple when one concurred with the wishes of others. In itself this is a dangerous weakness, but it seemed obligatory at the time.”
― Anita Brookner, Undue Influence