No Night is Too Long Quotes

“Without me, without me,
Everyday's misery.
But with me - am I wrong?
No night is too long!”
― Barbara Vine, No Night Is Too Long

“Why do you always wear black?”
She delighted me with her answer, the correct, the only, answer. “I’m in mourning for my life. I’m unhappy.”
― Barbara Vine, No Night is Too Long

“Ivo had grown more and more like one of those characters in his books who are always groaning about their miserable fate in helplessly loving someone unworthy of their love. Maugham never says much about what that’s like for the poor old unworthy object. I could have told him. It’s not exactly uplifting for the self-image.”
― Barbara Vine, No Night is Too Long

“Lean on me,” someone says in Jane Austen to a woman he scarcely knows, and there’s no question but that she will, that she takes it for granted.”
― Barbara Vine, No Night is Too Long