“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”
Ernest Hemingway book The Garden of Eden
Marita in Ch. 11
Source: The Garden of Eden (1986)
Quotes from bookThe 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.
Ernest Hemingway book The Garden of Eden
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.”
Ernest Hemingway book The Garden of Eden
Source: The Garden of Eden
Ernest Hemingway book 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.”
Ernest Hemingway book The Garden of Eden
Catherine in Ch. 1
Source: The Garden of Eden (1986)
“Everything that's innocent to us is crazy to them.”
Ernest Hemingway book The Garden of Eden
Source: The Garden of Eden
“Do you always get so hungry when you make love?”
“When you love somebody.”
Ernest Hemingway book The Garden of Eden
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.
“You're awfully dark, brother," he said. "You don't know how dark.”
Ernest Hemingway book The Garden of Eden
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“Everybody has strange things that mean things to them. You couldn't help it.”
Ernest Hemingway book The Garden of Eden
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“When you start to live outside yourself, it's all dangerous.”
Ernest Hemingway book The Garden of Eden
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“I love you and I always will and I am sorry. What a useless word.”
Ernest Hemingway book The Garden of Eden
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“I didn't marry her family.'
'Of course not. But you always do. Dead or alive.”
Ernest Hemingway book The Garden of Eden
David and Colonel John Boyle in Ch. 7
The Garden of Eden (1986)
Ernest Hemingway book The Garden of Eden
'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?”
Ernest Hemingway book The Garden of Eden
'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)
Ernest Hemingway book The Garden of Eden
'When you love somebody.'
Catherine and David Bourne in Ch. 1
The Garden of Eden (1986)
