"Still Life" Quotes
"Still Life" by A.S. Byatt follows the Potter siblings as they navigate personal ambitions, family tensions, and the search for meaning in postwar England.
fiction | 293 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
There is no such thing as a true story.
It is the nature of truth that it can be hidden in many ways.
One must always have an unwritten book and an unvisited place to look forward to.
Words are things, and a small drop of ink, falling like dew, upon a thought, produces that which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.
I am a product [...], and I do not like it.
People think of stories, as one thing, as one big thing, with a beginning and an end.
The only way to deal with the past is to accept it and then to forget it.
What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.
There is no darkness but ignorance.
