Quotessence
Home / Quotes / Quote by Warwick Deeping

Quote by Warwick Deeping

Work

Uther and Igraine / Love Among the Ruins / The Slanderers

Browse quotes and source details for this work. more

Author

Warwick Deeping

Browse famous quotes and profile details for Warwick Deeping. more

You May Also Like

“Pat gave a few little yelps of pain as he was carried down the hall, but he looked around, surprised and faintly pleased, when Phil put him carefully on the bed. And his ears pricked up to listen to the sound of Katy's voice from the bathroom, calling out a thank-you to Phil for the warm towel. The dog's eyes had seemed to be dimming, like two faraway torch beams moving farther away into the night. But for a few seconds they seemed to brighten, sharpen, intensify. He looked straight at Phil as if trying to communicate something. "You love her, don't you?" Phil said softly. The dog blinked and then closed his eyes. "Me too.”

“She was leaning over him, with a slight smile that was victorious over everything: victorious over her sickness, over the incandescent air, over her exhaustion, the dust, the stench, the merciless heat. Lying flat under the bush, his eyes blood- shot and his nose bleeding. Fields told himself that he would particularly have liked to inspire such love and devotion in a German he, the son of parents who had been gassed by the Germans at Auschwitz: it would have proved that to be a man was after all not hopeless. To fall in love with a German girl, he a Jew, that would show the Germans how he felt about it. But perhaps it was merely lust.”