“It was her birthday. She thought, I am always unhappy on this day.”
Source: The Green Knight
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Famous Iris Murdoch Quotes
“I took him for a kind of buffoon. Now I see he is a devil.”
Source: The Green Knight
Source: The Green Knight
“So was she on the side of dragons and indifferent to the fate of princesses?”
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“The human mind is a weird place.”
Source: The Green Knight
Source: The Green Knight
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“Nothing will bring me peace except revenge.”
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“We all love a glimpse of Lucas, it's a religious experience.”
Source: The Green Knight
Source: The Green Knight
“He awoke the next morning to an instant consciousness of disaster.”
Source: The Green Knight
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“For me, nothing can ever be well again.”
Source: The Green Knight
Source: The Green Knight
“Louise thought, what will happen to them — perhaps just this is the beginning of some awful end.”
Source: The Green Knight
Source: The Green Knight
“How easily one is hurt. Or is it only I who am so stupidly vulnerable.”
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“Sorrow can sometimes induce sleep.”
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“Clement held her hand for a moment; knowing that after that moment the darkness would begin.”
Source: The Green Knight
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“She thought, this is the end of happiness, darkness begins here.”
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“He is crammed full of rage and hate and desire for revenge.”
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“What greater torment than to see that light, and then to see it eternally withdrawn?”
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“Although he longed to see Louise, and to see Aleph, he increasingly lacked the will to go.”
Source: The Green Knight