“Some things belong to the past.”
Ronald Frame“Let's say I find a lot of current American fiction too overwritten for my tastes, too self-conscious; I like something that's simpler and more direct. The story is what matters to me. I hope to make it seem real to readers, as if it happened just like this - so I don't want fancy descriptions getting in the way.”
Ronald Frame“Why d’you think she did it?”I told him I had no idea. He seemed disappointed that I shouldn’t know.“A broken heart,” I suggested.“Do people suffer so much?”“For love? Oh, I imagine so.”“To drown herself?”“Why does that astonish you? Dido threw herself on the flames.”“In legend.”“And real life’s different?” I asked.”
Ronald Frame, Havisham“Don’t we have to live a little first? And read later?”
Ronald Frame, Havisham“I’m not just a face, or a body. I’m a Havisham.”
Ronald Frame, Havisham“Experience can never be undone, or knowledge unlearned.”
Ronald Frame, Havisham“Some things belong to the past.”
Ronald Frame, Havisham“We were perfectly decorous together. It took the will of both of us. I trusted him with me, and myself with him.”
Ronald Frame, Havisham