The Forgiven Quotes

“since life is but a sport and a pastime, as the Koran carefully reminds us, and because it is a game and nothing more, one forgets that the point of life is death.”
― Lawrence Osborne, The Forgiven

“The past is gone, what is hoped for is absent and there is only the hour in which you are.”
― Lawrence Osborne, The Forgiven

“A red wine is held by the neck, a woman by the waist, and a bottle of champagne by the derrière.”
― Lawrence Osborne, The Forgiven

“But he never asked anything about the Berbers, who seemed to him to be elements of an immoveable décor and nothing else. A form of statuary. Of course, he affected to be concerned about them, because that is what everyone nowadays was taught to do. But he really detested wasting any breath on them. They were a source of terrorism, of course; that made them interesting during heated debates.”
― Lawrence Osborne, The Forgiven

“The men there lived in perpetual gloom and unhappiness, no doubt brought upon them by their infidelity to truth and their indelible taste for buggery.”
― Lawrence Osborne, The Forgiven