The Drowned Quotes

“The blunt, unceasing continuity of things baffled him, affronted him. It was a scandal, the entire indifferent business of being alive.”
― John Banville, The Drowned

“Despite his limited experience of them, women, he believed, were in general more alert than men, more keenly receptive of the tiny signals the world sends streaming out endlessly. It made sense, since they were more vulnerable and therefore had to be always on their guard. The same as children, only children were more trusting.”
― John Banville, The Drowned

“He was perched at the top end of the bed like an ancient child, with frightened eyes and his crooked mouth hanging slack. Over his pajama top he wore a brown woolen garment that might be a woman’s cardigan—perhaps his wife had brought him one of hers. It added an extra note of pathos to the scene of general ruin.”
― John Banville, The Drowned