The Fall of Kelvin Walker

“A lot of real things are very nasty indeed. As a whole reality doesn’t appeal to me.”

It’s queer that something as physical as love can change our feelings about life. I thought only ideas could do that.

When love stops being dangerous and confusing and no longer needs courage perhaps it becomes something else.

The only people able to comfort us bring us pain. Love should not be like that. Life is sore enough already. Love should simplify and tidy, not complicate and destroy, and does it not sometimes do that?

But it would have been a mistake to pity him, for there was a wide range of emotions he never noticed himself feeling.