Pirates at Play Quotes

“Do you think that love has to be requited to be genuine? On the contrary, it thrives on indifference.”
― Violet Trefusis, Pirates at Play

“He loved the interminable winter nights, when the dissatisfied wind mewed through the keyhole, and gusts of acrid smoke were driven down through the chimney; the imperfect silence when you awoke, as of a conversation hastily lulled, objects being hastily replaced. ‘Blow, blow thou winter wind, thou art not so unkind as man’s ingratitude.’ Why was it that he felt so perfectly attuned to winter, to its fatalistic expectation of the worst, then, when the worst came, its rustic heroisms and shouldering of burdens, improvised ingeniousness, constructive despair?”
― Violet Trefusis, Pirates at Play

“His neglected heart, forsaken, isolated, was more lonely than the ace of hearts in the middle of a playing card.”
― Violet Trefusis, Pirates at Play

“The same word passed through three minds, simultaneously, philosophical, fatalistic, the eternal refuge of the Italian: Pazienza....”
― Violet Trefusis, Pirates at Play