The Romantic Quotes

“More and more he came to see memory as elusive and tricky , and it was surprisingly malleable and transforming, as if it wanted to be pleasing rather than accurate, desirous of giving a version of the past that conformed with what he WANTED the past to be, rather than what it had actually been. He found that he was beginning to mistrust his memory.”
― William Boyd, The Romantic

“He could sense his body flagging even at the modest efforts he demanded of it. The cost of living a long time.
Getting tired.
Maybe this was the human consolation, that when you reach such a state of increasing physical incapacity or difficulty, you begin to welcome death- the end of the daily struggle, the embrace of oblivion. Then he banished these morbid thoughts.”
― William Boyd, The Romantic

“we have to accept the lives we’ve lived. Not imagine lives we might have lived.”
― William Boyd, The Romantic

“People think all the answers are in here – with the brain. Reason, intelligence, deduction. They think thinking will solve all problems.’ He put his hand over his heart. ‘But no – the answers are here. Your heart will tell you what is right or wrong. Your best guide through life”
― William Boyd, The Romantic