The Ocean Liner Quotes

“First love is never forgotten,’ she went on. ‘It’s the only love that remains fresh and potent for a lifetime. It’s the truest and most innocent of loves, exactly because it can never come to fruition. Do you understand what I mean?’ ‘Not exactly.’ ‘It never grows old; you see? It’s as fleeting as the morning dew, yet it clings to us all our lives.”
― Marius Gabriel, The Ocean Liner

“And yet there is space for human creativity to creep between those iron bars. We bend them, we slip through them from time to time.”
― Marius Gabriel, The Ocean Liner

“That Hitler had surrounded himself with thugs and murderers had cast a darker shadow on the years that followed. But”
― Marius Gabriel, The Ocean Liner

“When you are old and grey and full of sleep, And nodding by the fire, take down this book, And slowly read, and dream of the soft look Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep; How many loved your moments of glad grace, And loved your beauty with love false or true, But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face—’ Her hand touched his, stopping him.”
― Marius Gabriel, The Ocean Liner

“When You Are Old’ by W. B. Yeats, which appeared in 1892.”
― Marius Gabriel, The Ocean Liner

“Oh, you mustn’t think of it,’ Miss Ward exclaimed. ‘First love is far too precious. It’s not of this world. It asks nothing and gives all. It has nothing to do with the trade and barter of marriage – the dreary practicalities of rent and children and dirty dishes and all that.’ ‘But that’s exactly what we want.’ ‘Would you lead a goddess to the kitchen sink? First love is divine. It belongs in the realm of the soul. Keep it there, young”
― Marius Gabriel, The Ocean Liner

“your own?’ the boy asked. Stravinsky concentrated on”
― Marius Gabriel, The Ocean Liner

“Among the scarecrows in this vision he could see members of his own family.”
― Marius Gabriel, The Ocean Liner

“But that was war. Where ignorant armies clash by night.”
― Marius Gabriel, The Ocean Liner

“survivors.’ The sea-spray had frozen in his and Todt’s eyebrows and beards, white forests riming their faces.”
― Marius Gabriel, The Ocean Liner

“his desperate sale of The Rite of Spring to Walt Disney, to be used in an animated film called Fantasia.”
― Marius Gabriel, The Ocean Liner

“pity.”
― Marius Gabriel, The Ocean Liner