Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists. - Anita Brookner. View more images...

Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy. - Anita Brookner. View more images...

A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification. - Anita Brookner. View more images...

The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just. - Anita Brookner. View more images...