Quotes from book
The Go-Between

Name: The Go-Between
Author: L. P. Hartley

The Go-Between is a novel by L.P. Hartley published in 1953. His best-known work, it has been adapted several times for stage and screen. The book gives a critical view of society at the end of the Victorian era through the eyes of a naïve schoolboy outsider.

“The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.”

L. P. Hartley book The Go-Between

First sentence.
The Go-Between (1953)

“"I might go for a walk." Even to me this sounded a pedestrian thing to do.”

L. P. Hartley book The Go-Between

The Go-Between (1953)

“I remember walking to the cricket ground with the team, sometimes trying to feel, and sometimes trying not to feel, that I was one of them; and the conviction I had, which comes so quickly to a boy, that nothing in the world mattered except that we should win.”

L. P. Hartley book The Go-Between

The Go-Between (1953)

“I caught glimpses of white-clad figures striding purposefully to and fro, heard men's voices calling each other in tones of authority and urgency, as if life had suddenly become more serious, as if battle were in prospect.”

L. P. Hartley book The Go-Between

The Go-Between (1953)