Getting Orlando Quotes

“I've never had a love letter before. Not from anyone. It is a most wonderful thing to receive. I realise that it makes a present to me of your life, not just your love.”
― Anthony McDonald, Getting Orlando

“Exposing impressionable young men to the glories of opera on their first evening at home with you tended to put the kiss of death on things, as Oliver, to his cost, had discovered over the years.”
― Anthony McDonald, Getting Orlando

“Are we all just lightning rods for other people's destinies? Is that what it's all about”
― Anthony McDonald, Getting Orlando

“A one-night stand became a fling if you repeated things the second night, that was an easy one, a question of maths. But when did a fling metamorphose into an affair? At what stage did an affair become a relationship? And how long could even one of those be relied upon to last?”
― Anthony McDonald, Getting Orlando