A Gun for Sale Quotes

“She couldn't avoid being serious about things she cared for, and happiness made her grave at the thought of all the things which might destroy it.”
― Graham Greene, A Gun for Sale

“It's only kew to you but to me it's paradise
They are just blue petunias to you but to me they are your eyes.”
― Graham Greene, A Gun for Sale

“Don't look so miserable. I thought you said you were happy."
“That was five minutes ago."
“Oh," she said out of her light and heavy heart, “one lives quickly these days.”
― Graham Greene, A Gun for Sale

“What's wrong with 'dear', anyway?"
“Dear, dear," she tried it out on the tip of her tongue, between lips as vividly stained as a winter berry. “Oh no,” she decided, “I'll call you that when we’ve been married ten years.”
― Graham Greene, A Gun for Sale