A Banquet of Consequences Quotes

“What I mean is that one's whole life is an autobiography, don't you agree? Whether it gets written or not doesn't make a difference. What goes into it, though? That's what counts.”
― Elizabeth George, A Banquet of Consequences

“I find that people aren't all one thing. One rather wishes they were for simplicity's sake, but isn't the truth that people are good and bad, simple and complicated, happy and sad, frightened and courageous? It's all a mix. We learn to take in everything about a person as disparate parts to the whole, and it's the whole that we love, even at moments when the other isn't who we wish her to be.”
― Elizabeth George, A Banquet of Consequences

“pouring”
― Elizabeth George, A Banquet of Consequences

“Clare,”
― Elizabeth George, A Banquet of Consequences

“It’s quite odd, though, isn’t it? The primitive is always there, just beneath the surface of our civility, all those carefully cultivated social mores. One still wants to lay claim, and the claim comes down to possession. My fire, my hearth, my . . . whatever.”
― Elizabeth George, A Banquet of Consequences

“She’s like most people, more or less stumbling along without understanding the effect their words have on others.”
― Elizabeth George, A Banquet of Consequences

“He wants your sympathy, and sometimes, India, people mistake sympathy for love.”
― Elizabeth George, A Banquet of Consequences

“At that point she came to understand that, difficult as it was to face, there were times when the only life you could save was your own.”
― Elizabeth George, A Banquet of Consequences