Still Life Quotes

“Narrative is one of the best intoxicants or tranquilisers.”
― A.S. Byatt, Still Life

“She was looking for a husband, partly because she was afraid no one might want her, partly because
she couldn't decide what to do with herself until that problem was solved, partly because everyone else was looking for a husband.”
― A.S. Byatt, Still Life

“The decorum of the novel, on the whole, requires that time not be given to grief.”
― A.S. Byatt, Still Life