Nine of My Favourite Alex Beecroft Quotes
Quotes, who doesn’t love a good quote? This series of articles we look at Top 9 Famous Quotes by Author Alex Beecroft, author quotes are always a challenge and fun to pick, with Alex Beecroft you will find my Nine favourites of Alex Beecroft’s quotes.
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“He looked like a man who was turning into paper, folding himself into origami angles, fragile and friable and prone to crumple.”
― Alex Beecroft, Shining in the Sun
“So close now, Alec could read the make on his wetsuit, see the individual grains of sand that dusted
the black material, the drops of water trembling on the points of his hair. Now or never. But Alec couldn‟t,
couldn’t. Could he?
He stood up. “Stop!” His mouth dried out as the surfer‟s dark, dark green eyes looked into his, startled
and curious. Suddenly he felt an absolute fool. He was inviting a good kicking, at least. But damn it, a man
couldn‟t always be afraid.
“Don‟t go past. Please. Sit down and drink with me. If you go past… If you go past, I think I‟ll die.”
― Alex Beecroft, Shining in the Sun
“Ridiculous, that Finn had to be the one giving comfort. But it had been this way with Tom too. Arguments were tricky things for both sides to win if no one ever gave way first. There was something terribly domestic about the small sacrifice of ego, of first place. Sure, sex was a fine thing, but a fight at the end of which the pair of you were more lovingly entangled than ever, that was closer to being one flesh, one soul, than anything else.”
― Alex Beecroft, Trowchester Blues
“Who would have thought some doors only slammed shut temporarily; that when you turned to trudge away they could be flung open again, and love come pelting down the path, shouting for you to come back?”
― Alex Beecroft, False Colors
“There’s a kind of joy on Garnet’s face, and seeing it shifts everything inside my head. By gradual stages, like sailing out of a fog, the obstruction cleared, my confusion lightened, my shame thinned and lifted; I understood. Garnet needed no refuge, no hidden isle moated all around by impassable sea. Inside himself, where no one else could touch him, he had learned how to be free. How not to be ashamed.”
― Alex Beecroft, Blessed Isle
“No man is an island, entire of himself,” says John Donne, but two may be, together, needing nothing else.”
― Alex Beecroft, Blessed Isle
“They think one enjoys oneself by an endless procession of new vices. For myself I prefer to have one or two vices, properly matured.”
― Alex Beecroft, False Colors
“There wasn’t a lot of time to wait for Michael, but it made the most of itself, stretching like a rubber band, every second longer than the last.”
― Alex Beecroft, Trowchester Blues
“Her coat was one of those ghastly skiing things, quilted and stuffed with microfibres for warmth. She looked like a larva in it.”
― Alex Beecroft, Trowchester Blues
9 Famous Quotes by Author Alex Beecroft
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