Athena Quotes

“Encline aux vérités qui tuent, elle n'avait nulle intention de blesser.”
― John Banville, Athena

“what used to be called measured tones,”
― John Banville, Athena

“cling to the present tense as to a sheer cliff’s last hand-hold.”
― John Banville, Athena

“always it is there, you see, the yearning for solitude, for the cell.”
― John Banville, Athena

“Rouault face.”
― John Banville, Athena

“the orotund quality that sets in when I begin consciously to dissemble: and so much had happened to me and to my life since those by now archaic days – dear, oh dear! Whenever I employ locutions such as that you will know I am inventing. But then, when do I not use such locutions?”
― John Banville, Athena

“catarrhal”
― John Banville, Athena

“mountebank.”
― John Banville, Athena

“At this muffled end of another year”
― John Banville, Athena