“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”
Marita in Ch. 11
Source: The Garden of Eden (1986)
Quotes from book
The Garden of Eden
The Garden of Eden is the second posthumously released novel of Ernest Hemingway, published in 1986. Hemingway started the novel in 1946 and worked on the manuscript for the next 15 years, during which time he also wrote The Old Man and the Sea, The Dangerous Summer, A Moveable Feast, and Islands in the Stream.
Variant: You’ll ache. And you’re going to love it. It will crush you. And you’re still going to love all of it.
Source: The Garden of Eden
“I'm with you. No matter what else you have in your head I'm with you and I love you.”
Source: The Garden of Eden
Colonel John Boyle and David in Ch. 7
Source: The Garden of Eden (1986)
“Please love me David the way I am. Please understand and love me.”
Catherine in Ch. 1
Source: The Garden of Eden (1986)
“Do you always get so hungry when you make love?”
“When you love somebody.”
Catherine and David Bourne in Ch. 1
Source: The Garden of Eden (1986)
Context: But I get so hungry,' she said. 'Is it normal do you think? Do you always get so hungry when you make love?'
'When you love somebody.
“Everybody has strange things that mean things to them. You couldn't help it.”
Source: The Garden of Eden
“I didn't marry her family.'
'Of course not. But you always do. Dead or alive.”
David and Colonel John Boyle in Ch. 7
The Garden of Eden (1986)
'Of course not. But you always do. Dead or alive.'
David and Colonel John Boyle in Ch. 7
The Garden of Eden (1986)
“Remember everything is right until it's wrong. You'll know when it's wrong.'
'You think so?”
'I'm quite sure. If you don't it doesn't matter. Nothing will matter then.'
Colonel John Boyle and David in Ch. 7
The Garden of Eden (1986)
'When you love somebody.'
Catherine and David Bourne in Ch. 1
The Garden of Eden (1986)
