Waiting for Sunrise QUOTES

1 " The wounded, the incomplete, the unbalanced, the malfunctioning, the ill seek each other out: like attracted to like. "

― William Boyd , Waiting for Sunrise

3 " he needed the security of other bodies. "

― William Boyd , Waiting for Sunrise

5 " but you’re giving a very good impression of a lovelorn fool pining for his girl. "

― William Boyd , Waiting for Sunrise

7 " She's half mad and three parts drunk. "

― William Boyd , Waiting for Sunrise

9 " Maybe this is what life is like - we try to see clearly but what we see is never clear and is never going to be. The more we strive the murkier it becomes. All we are left with are approximations, nuances, multitudes of plausible explanations. Take your pick. "

― William Boyd , Waiting for Sunrise

11 " Sitting in this small pub with its cool flagged floor, listening to the murmuring voices of the haymakers and the click of dominoes falling, drinking beer here in the midle of summer in England in 1914, he suddenly felt a stillness creep up on him as if he were suffering from a form of mental palsy -- as if time had stopped and the world's turning, also. It was a strange sensation -- that he would be for ever stuck in this late June day in 1914 like a fly in amber -- the past as irrelevant to him as the future. A perfect statis; the most alluring inertia. "

― William Boyd , Waiting for Sunrise

13 " The view backward showed you all the twists and turns your life had taken, all the contingencies and chances, the random elements of good luck and bad luck that made up one person’s existence. "

― William Boyd , Waiting for Sunrise