Waiting for Sunrise Quotes

“She's half mad and three parts drunk.”
― William Boyd, Waiting for Sunrise

“Maybe this is what life is like - we try to see clearly but what we see is never clear and is never going to be. The more we strive the murkier it becomes. All we are left with are approximations, nuances, multitudes of plausible explanations. Take your pick.”
― William Boyd, Waiting for Sunrise

“No human being is entirely innocent”
― William Boyd, Waiting for Sunrise

“Sitting in this small pub with its cool flagged floor, listening to the murmuring voices of the haymakers and the click of dominoes falling, drinking beer here in the midle of summer in England in 1914, he suddenly felt a stillness creep up on him as if he were suffering from a form of mental palsy -- as if time had stopped and the world's turning, also. It was a strange sensation -- that he would be for ever stuck in this late June day in 1914 like a fly in amber -- the past as irrelevant to him as the future. A perfect statis; the most alluring inertia.”
― William Boyd, Waiting for Sunrise

“Mr Lysander Rief looks like someone who is far more at ease occupying the cold security of the dark; a man happier with the dubious comfort of the shadows.”
― William Boyd, Waiting for Sunrise

“The view backward showed you all the twists and turns your life had taken, all the contingencies and chances, the random elements of good luck and bad luck that made up one person’s existence.”
― William Boyd, Waiting for Sunrise

“No, no - you have to understand, Lysander, here in Vienna, in this ramshackle empire of ours, suicide is a perfectly reasonable course of action. Everyone will know your true feelings and why you had no choice but to do it - no one will condemn you or blame you.”
― William Boyd, Waiting for Sunrise

“Lysander saw that they were displaying all the timeworn and conventional feints and poor disguises of lovers meeting in a public place and hoping the real nature of their relationship would be invisible.”
― William Boyd, Waiting for Sunrise

“Any fool can “obey” an order,’ Hamo said, darkly. ‘The clever thing is to interpret it.”
― William Boyd, Waiting for Sunrise

“but you’re giving a very good impression of a lovelorn fool pining for his girl.”
― William Boyd, Waiting for Sunrise

“Meeting Hettie again made him achingly conscious once more of the irrefutable nature of his obsession with her. Obsession - or love? Or was it something more unhealthy - a kind of craving, an addiction?”
― William Boyd, Waiting for Sunrise

“he needed the security of other bodies.”
― William Boyd, Waiting for Sunrise

“The wounded, the incomplete, the unbalanced, the malfunctioning, the ill seek each other out: like attracted to like.”
― William Boyd, Waiting for Sunrise

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― William Boyd, Waiting for Sunrise