The Folding Star Quotes

“I was at work on my first book, "The Manners Family of Kent", fed with boastful anecdotes by my great-aunt Tina and rather more disillusioned sidelights from my Uncle Wilfred, sometimes quite hard to understand;”
― Alan Hollinghurst, The Folding Star

“I saw that the older man he was with couldn't quite believe his luck and was clinging to it with clumsy determination while it lasted, though the boy himself appeared relaxed by his frequent caresses.”
― Alan Hollinghurst, The Folding Star

“I thought, these are the evening routines which will soon be mine, the tug of an unknown suburb, or a bar, or a lover.”
― Alan Hollinghurst, The Folding Star

“I was applying myself to the subtler connoisseurship of the out-of-season, days without warmth and nights without encounters, empty pleasure-grounds and the violence of the tides.”
― Alan Hollinghurst, The Folding Star

“… whenever I saw him he was moving with the confident slowness of the beautiful. Even his jogging was somehow in slow motion.”
― Alan Hollinghurst, The Folding Star