April in Spain Quotes

“The mind has a mind of its own, you know. It does things of which we are not aware. It makes connections, invents fantasies. This is the secret world we move in when we dream.”
― John Banville, April in Spain

“As I have told you many times, there is no cure. No cure, that is, from what you call madness. There is only—what is the word?—amelioration. Surely you have read of the woman suffering from severe neurosis who went to Freud and asked him if he could cure her. Freud said no, he couldn’t do that, but he believed what he could do was restore her to a state of ordinary unhappiness.”
― John Banville, April in Spain

“In fact, it wasn’t Cagney so much as Richard Widmark that he secretly imagined himself as, especially in the part of  Harry Fabian in Night and the City, which he had seen four times and”
― John Banville, April in Spain: A Strafford and Quirke Mystery

“For him, petulance was a pastime.”
― John Banville, April in Spain

“He had a special fondness for the moving parts of women, their wrists, their butterfly-shaped ankles, their shoulder blades like a swan’s folded wings. In particular he treasured their knees, especially the back of them, where the skin was pale, milk-blue, with delicate fissures, little fine cracks, as in the most fragile old pieces of bone china. — John Banville, April in Spain (Hanover Square Press, 2021)”
― John Banville, April in Spain

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― John Banville, April in Spain: A Strafford and Quirke Mystery