The Next Big Thing Quotes

“and, after satisfying himself that the business was being looked after, disappeared again into the busy street. They suspected that their days in Hilltop Road were numbered, that Ostrovski would dispossess”
― Anita Brookner, Making Things Better

“All the deaths were natural, yet all had an aura of horror. It was their lives rather than their deaths that were regrettable, and all the frustrated love that had failed to sweeten their end.”
― Anita Brookner, The Next Big Thing

“They had marveled then at the effervescence, the sophistication, as they sat in the Flore or the Deux Magots surveying glittering evening. Their supreme good fortune, in those far-off days, was to have been alike in their expectations; the naivete of youth had protected them from potential disappointment, not only with the adventure, but with each other.”
― Anita Brookner, The Next Big Thing

“She was right: dignity was important. But so was the impulse to get rid of it, as he knew from his recent awakening.”
― Anita Brookner, The Next Big Thing