Quotes from book

A Lion Among Men

“Remember to breathe. It is after all, the secret of life.”

“The future reshapes the memory of the past in the way it recalibrates significance; some episodes are advanced, others lose purchase.”

“A male usually had made up his mind before you began to talk to him -so why bother?- but a female, because her mind was more supple, was always prepared to become more disappointed in you than she had yet suspected possible.”

“Perhaps family itself, like beauty, is temporary, and no discredit need attach to impermanence.”

“He knew about being alone. The weather was always cold there.”

“Indeed, she often wondered if she were dead, or dying from the inside out, and that was the root of her calm, the reason she could surrender her character.”