Pure Quotes

“First ambitions are best. We are less brave later.”
― Andrew Miller, Pure

“Like everyone else in the house, she suffers from dreams.”
― Andrew Miller, Pure

“She knows about men, knows a good deal of the world's character. But it is hard, whatever you have endured, to give up on love. Hard to stop thinking of it as a home you might one day find again. More than hard.”
― Andrew Miller, Pure

“The poverty of the villages is almost picturesque from the windows of a coach that is not stopping.”
― Andrew Miller, Pure

“The visit, like all visits home for a long time now, has been an obscure failure. When is it we cease to be able to go back, truly go back? What secret door is it that closes?”
― Andrew Miller, Pure

“Why are there no handsome priest in Paris? One has no inclination to confess anything to an ugly man.”
― Andrew Miller, Pure

“Could he not go to hospital?' asks Jean-Baptiste.
The doctor flares his nostrils. 'Hospitals are very dangerous places. Particularly to one already weakened by illness.”
― Andrew Miller, Pure

“I’m going to play,’ says Armand, lacing his fingers and cracking the knuckles. ‘A pair of these lads can pump for me.’
‘Is this a time for playing?’ asks Jean Baptiste. Then, ‘You are right. You have never been more so.”
― Andrew Miller, Pure

“Everywhere women were insulted with impunity, insulted by men. If a few of them suffered for their insolence as the overseer had, it might be no more than they deserved.”
― Andrew Miller, Pure

“He is wearing a suit of pistachio silk, a silk lining of green and saffron stripes. The waistcoat, cut at the top of the thigh, is also pistachio, with modest gold-thread embroidery. The cuffs of the coat are small, the collar high. The cravat–saffron again–is almost as large as Armand’s.”
― Andrew Miller, Pure

“He wonders how much a man's life is the story he tells himself about himself”
― Andrew Miller, Pure