The group Quotes - QuotesSweet | quotesweet.com

Book: The Group
Quotes of Book: The Group

Mary McCarthy _ The Group
You have to live without love, learn not to need it in order to live with it.
book-quote
Mary McCarthy _ The Group
Elinor was always firmly convinced of other people's hypocrisy since she could not believe that they noticed less than she did.
book-quote
Mary McCarthy _ The Group
He would have been far more attractive to her if she could have trusted him. You could not love a man who was always playing hide-and-seek with you; that was the lesson she had learned.
book-quote
Mary McCarthy _ The Group
It came to her that he was going to leave without making love to her. This would mean they had made love for the last time this morning. But that did not count: this morning they did not know it was for the last time. When the door shut behind him, she still could not believe it. "It can't end like this," she said to herself over and over, drumming with her knuckles on her mouth to keep from screaming.
book-quote
Mary McCarthy _ The Group
He was a thoroughly bad hat, then, but that was the kind, of course, that nice women broke their hearts over.
book-quote
Mary McCarthy _ The Group
Love had done this to her, for the second time. Love was bad for her. There must be certain people who were allergic to love, and she was one of them. Not only was it bad for her; it made her bad; it poisoned her. Before she knew him, not only had she been far, far happier but she had been nicer. Loving him was turning her into an awful person, a person she hated.
book-quote
Mary McCarthy _ The Group
She decided she wanted a cool, starchy independent life, with ruffles of humor like window curtains.
book-quote
Mary McCarthy _ The Group
If {she} had come to prefer the company of odd ducks, it was possibly because they had no conception of oddity, or rather, they thought you were odd if you weren't.
book-quote