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The Next Big Thing QUOTES

The Next Big Thing QUOTES

1 " She was right: dignity was important. But so was the impulse to get rid of it, as he knew from his recent awakening. "

― Anita Brookner , The Next Big Thing

2 " They had marveled then at the effervescence, the sophistication, as they sat in the Flore or the Deux Magots surveying glittering evening. Their supreme good fortune, in those far-off days, was to have been alike in their expectations; the naivete of youth had protected them from potential disappointment, not only with the adventure, but with each other. "

― Anita Brookner , The Next Big Thing

3 " All the deaths were natural, yet all had an aura of horror. It was their lives rather than their deaths that were regrettable, and all the frustrated love that had failed to sweeten their end. "

― Anita Brookner , The Next Big Thing