The Dust That Falls from Dreams Quotes

“She was beginning to understand that it is not enough to love someone deeply; you also have to learn to love them well.”
― Louis de Bernières, The Dust that Falls from Dreams

“Distinguée? In what sense might a maid be distinguée?”
― Louis de Bernières, The Dust that Falls from Dreams

“Christmas is such a trial,’ said Mrs McCosh. ‘I do most sincerely wish the Lord had been born at some other time.”
― Louis de Bernières, The Dust That Falls from Dreams

“Soldiers planted like vegetables waiting for the day of harvest. … everything is more intense at night, perfectly beautiful, and when the wind shifts and the reek of rotting meat vanishes for a few blessed minutes you can smell the sweet scent of the countryside.”
― Louis de Bernières, The Dust That Falls from Dreams

“half Scottish, respectable, and imbued with the powerful emotional restraint that those races have inherited somehow (via God knows what route) from the Spartans. It was a matter of self-conquest, refusal to show weakness, refusal to become a burden to others. This inheritance does not diminish one’s natural sympathies, it merely makes them harder to express and to receive, and it is a legacy which it is extremely hard to unlearn.”
― Louis de Bernières, The Dust that Falls from Dreams