Best 6 quotes of Charles Palliser on MyQuotes

I think every first-person narrator in a novel should be compromised. I prefer that word to unreliable.

To exist is to be betrayed, since we exist for others only by virtue of what we betray of ourselves to them.

Victorian values meant brutalizing people who were often poor.

We only value ourselves as others value us, for it might be said that we hold ourselves in trust for others.

When you love, you entrust to that person your sense of your own worth, and if that person throws you aside, you believe profoundly and utterly that it is because you are worthless. That is a kind of death.

Yes, Jonnie," Emma said. "Extraordinary as it seems, it was mere coincidence that brought you to our door. It's the sort of thing that you expect to find only in a novel — and only when you know the author has been too idle to work it out any better.