Best 11 quotes of Caleb Crain on MyQuotes

A suicide makes a fault in a novel, as suicides make a fault in life.

Because the air was bright and fresh, the ground beneath them empty, and both of them young, it was possible to imagine that either of them could become anything he wanted.

But what are they?” Annie asked. “An omphalos, probably,” said Jacob. “A what, dear?” Melinda asked. “A bellybutton of the world.” “I didn’t know it had one.

By its nature a relationship was not an accomplishment. It was just a connection that happened to exist, for as long as it did exist.

Everyday life continues during a love affair.

In Rome the statues, in Paris the paintings, and in Prague the buildings suggest that pleasure can be an education.

It was strange that one couldn’t know in advance which places one was later going to wish to remember.

Since he had given up men he had taken up geography. He visited a new sight or a new neighborhood nearly every weekend.

The beer was cheap, the fiddling sharp, and the dancing sweaty.

The worse one sins, the more of a moralist one becomes.

Unable to see, they were briefly seized by the characteristic Prague anxiety of never finding the entrance--of arriving at one's goal but remaining blocked from it by a wall or a stone on account of having overlooked an alley or medieval door a few dozen yards back, which has served as the approach so immemorially that no one any longer marked or described it.