What they had both thought was safety proved to have been the camouflage of an enemy who works in terms of friendship, trust and pity.
Graham GreeneWhat happens if you drop all the things that make you I?
Graham GreeneWhat do we ever get nowadays from reading to equal the excitement and the revelation in those first fourteen years?
Graham GreeneA brain was only capable of what it could conceive, and it couldn't conceive what it had never experienced
Graham GreeneTags: experience mind human thoughtful brain capable concieve
She had lost all our memories for ever, and it was as though by dying she had robbed me of part of myself. I was losing my individuality. It was the first stage of my own death, the memories dropping off like gangrened limbs.
Graham GreeneI thought I am kissing pain and pain belongs to You as happiness never does. I love You in Your pain. I could almost taste metal and salt in the skin, and I thought, How good you are. You might have killed us with happiness, but You let us be with You in pain.
Graham GreeneThe sense of unhappiness is so much easier to convey than that of happiness. In misery we seem aware of our own existence, even though it may be in the form of a monstrous egotism: this pain of mine is individual, this nerve that winces belongs to me and to no other. But happiness annihilates us: we lose our identity.
Graham GreeneThis was hell then; it wasn't anything to worry about: it was just his own familiar room.
Graham GreeneTags: hell
Fun... human nature... does no one any harm... Regular as clockwork the old excuses came back into the alert, sad and dissatisfied brain--nothing ever matched the deep excitement of the regular desire. Men always failed you when it came to the act. She might just as well have been to the pictures.
Graham GreeneHe was like a child with haemophilia: every contact drew blood.
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