The Collected Stories Quotes

“Have you led an empty life? You give the impression of an empty life.’ ‘My life has been as many other lives. Empty of some things, full of others.”
― William Trevor, The Collected Stories

“Then he undressed and brushed his teeth. He examined his face in the slightly tarnished looking-glass above the wash-basin. He was fifty-seven, but according to this reflection older. His face would seem younger if he put on a bit of weight; chubbiness could be made to cover a multitude of sins. But he didn’t want that; he liked being thought of as beyond things.”
― William Trevor, The Collected Stories

“Mr Apse was sixty-three now and Miss Bell was forty-five. Mrs Pope was fifty-nine, Tindall forty-three. Plunkett, reckoned in the village to be about fifty, was in fact precisely that.”
― William Trevor, The Collected Stories