The Game Quotes

“He had said she was provocative; so she was, she needed to prove she was there to be seen; but the proof always, contradictorily, drove her to further uncertain agony of guilt and self-distaste.”
― A.S. Byatt, The Game

“Everybody's possibilities solidify round them and become limitations.”
― A.S. Byatt, The Game

“Iron bars make a cage all right, and the more you look at them or reproduce them the more you know it’s a real cage.”
― A.S. Byatt, The Game: A Novel

“There will always be people who will slash open the other cheek when it is turned to them.”
― A.S. Byatt, The Game: A Novel

“We might do better if we saw art as a technique, not a mystique.”
― A.S. Byatt, The Game: A Novel