「Quotes」

「If you asked me now who I am, the only answer I could give with any certainty would be my name, Charles Ryder. For the rest, my loves, my hates, down even to my deepest desires, I can no longer say whether these emotions are my own, or stolen from those I once so desperately wished to be. On second thought, one emotion remains my own, alone among the borrowed and the second-hand, as pure as that faith from which I am still in flight. Guilt.」


「If only it could be like this always. Always summer. Always alone. Fruit always ripe.」


「I act only as God directs.
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Rubbish. God's your best invention. Whatever you want, he does.」


「I'm sorry.
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Whatever for?
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Everything.
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It's all right. Truly. I asked too much of you. I knew it all along, really. Only God can give you that sort of love.」


「I miss you.
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How sweet of you to say that. Dear Charles, it was my fault for bringing you to Brideshead. Run away. Run far away and don't ever look back.」


「I always thought you were the lamb to be slaughtered, when all along it is they who are hunted. They really is no end to your hunger, is there, Charles?」


「You tell me. Please, tell me. What does Charles Ryder really want?」