The Blue Afternoon Quotes

“Dignity was the first quality to be abandoned when the heart took over the running of human affairs.”
― William Boyd, The Blue Afternoon

“Love is not a feeling. It does not belong to that category of bodily experience which would include, for instance, pain.”
― William Boyd, The Blue Afternoon

“what massive turbulence of emotion she hid beneath a surface of total calm and placidity.”
― William Boyd, The Blue Afternoon

“This was an adventure, I told myself, an intriguing quest, and one that I would regret not seeing through at least a little further along the way.”
― William Boyd, The Blue Afternoon

“I am a total stranger, you see. Total.”
― William Boyd, The Blue Afternoon

“I am as sane as you are.”
― William Boyd, The Blue Afternoon

“You know that feeling, when you can almost see the two or several directions your life might take ahead of you, a moment when you know that the next choice you are about to make is going to be crucial and possibly final, that there is no going back, and that nothing will ever be the same again?”
― William Boyd, The Blue Afternoon