Our Evenings Quotes

“Sometimes it is the evidence, the spectacle of another person’s grief that harrows you, more than the loss itself.”
― Alan Hollinghurst, Our Evenings

“I think I wanted to be found, not to be forever the seeker.”
― Alan Hollinghurst, Our Evenings

“there are premonitions, it seems, too heavy to argue with.”
― Alan Hollinghurst, Our Evenings

“There we lay”
― Alan Hollinghurst, Our Evenings

“In your fifties and sixties your father-figures drop away – the ones who had licensed, enabled and witnessed your life – and no one can replace them.”
― Alan Hollinghurst, Our Evenings

“She was caught in the mercifully practical phase between the fact of the death and the gathering breaker of loss.”
― Alan Hollinghurst, Our Evenings