Altered States Quotes

“Grand passions are no longer the order of the day: divorce has replaced fidelity in the gardens of the West.”
― Anita Brookner, Altered States

“Perhaps what I was registering was nothing more than the passage of time, to which one should pay great attention, lest one remain fixed in past expectations, without noticing how foolish one had become.”
― Anita Brookner, Altered States

“Men can bury their past. An unmarried woman is her past. Whereas a wife has a social position. A spinster has none.”
― Anita Brookner, Altered States