"On Chesil Beach" Quotes
A young couple's honeymoon turns into a tense and intimate exploration of their relationship on the rocky shores of Chesil Beach.
fiction | 166 pages | Published in 2007
Quotes
It is not a good idea to suppress laughter. It goes back down and spreads to your hips.
There was a time when persons of taste and learning might be expected to read literature, and to buy books for their libraries.
It was hard to see how they could be friends, or how they could be anything but enemies.
They were in love, and they should have been together for years already, and they should be together for years to come.
In the end, there was no simple answer to the question of how a marriage should be.
It was an almost unbearable thought that she might have to be without him.
He had a terrible fear that he would not be able to stop himself from saying the wrong thing.
It was not a happy ending, but it was a kind of ending.
It's not just about sex, it's about being close to someone and not wanting anyone else.
There was a kind of peace in the way he was resigned to his fate.
