The Venus Trap Quotes

“But there’s an awful lot of emotional infidelity it’s possible to commit, without actually touching somebody . . .”
― Louise Voss, The Venus Trap

“After all, you could talk about music and eat in posh restaurants with anybody, couldn’t you? But there was only one person you could make love with, have that connection with.”
― Louise Voss, The Venus Trap

“But there’s an awful lot of emotional infidelity it’s possible to commit, without actually touching somebody . . .”
― Louise Voss, The Venus Trap

“A promise was a promise,”
― Louise Voss, The Venus Trap

“Time is a tricky customer. I find it hard to believe I’ve only been here for a day and a half, when I think about the number of times I’ve got angry at being held up by mere seconds: by the tap that you have to turn three times before any water emerges; the traffic light that remains stubbornly red for minutes on end; the call centre that plays you wavery classical music while you’re on hold . . . All of these things, which are utterly out of my control. Shouting at taps or traffic lights never speeds them up.”
― Louise Voss, The Venus Trap

“He used words in conversation that I had to look up in the dictionary—‘palimpsest’, ‘sublunary’, ‘nosocomial’—and I was far more impressed than I ought to have been. Particularly since anybody who actually manages to shoehorn those sorts of words into a casual sentence has got to be a total prat. But when I met him, my heart instantly plummeted. He looked like Elton John, short and podgy, with lots of teeth all clamouring for attention.”
― Louise Voss, The Venus Trap

“But I suppose that’s not what love is all about. You can’t spend your entire lives locked up in towers, ivory or otherwise, walking on beaches, having fabulous sex. You can’t. Because there are children to look after, bins to put out, direct debits to sort, livings to be made. There is baggage: so much baggage! Guilt and regret and recriminations.”
― Louise Voss, The Venus Trap