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Maybe we should go by tube', he said.A taxi'll come', she said. 'I'm in no hurry'.She remembered something a woman in Paris had told her once. A woman in her forties, much married, elegant, a little world-weary. There is nothing easier in this world, this woman had claimed, than getting a man to kiss you. Oh really? Eva had said, so how do you do that? Just stand close to a man, the woman has said, very close, as close as you can without touching - he will kiss you in one minute or two. It's inevitable. For them it's like an instinct - they can't resist. Infaillible.So Eva stood close to Romer in the doorway of the shop on Frith Street as he shooted and waved at the passing cars moving down the dark street, hoping one of them might be a taxi.We're out of luck', he said, turning, to find Eva standing very close to him, her face lifted.I'm in no hurry', she said.He reached for her and kissed her.

~ William Boyd

William Boyd Love Romance

A warm sunny evening, the plash and gurgle of the waves in the rock pools, the rush of the cold gin. I thought for the first time of my novel, abandoned, all these years, and I came up, unprompted, with the perfect title. Octet. Octet by Logan Mountstuart. Perhaps I will surprise them all, yet.

~ William Boyd

William Boyd Ambition Failure Novelist Persistence Writers Writing

Are our lives just the aggregate of the lies we've told? ('Lives' - the 'v' is silent.)

~ William Boyd

William Boyd Lies Lying

Hot crumpets with butter and jam - what could be more ambrosial?

~ William Boyd

William Boyd Abrosia Crumpets Food Jam

When the going gets tough, the tough gets going.

~ William Boyd

William Boyd 20Th Century Colonial Africa English Litterature Novel

Those of us who have the luck to enjoy good health forget about this vast parallel universe of the unwell-their daily miseries, their banal ordeals. Only when you cross that frontier into the world of ill-health do you recognize its quiet, massive presence, its brooding permanence.

~ William Boyd

William Boyd Misery Realization Sickness

It was pleasant - and the sense of otherness was nice, that there were two people involved in this process, that we were each giving something to the other.

~ William Boyd

William Boyd Kissing
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