Quotes from Iris Murdoch, The Sea, the Sea

It is necessary to write, that much is clear, and to write in a way quite unlike any way which I have employed before.

Love doesn't think like that. All right, it's blind as a bat--''Bats have radar. Yours doesn't seem to be working.

Mercifully one forgets one's love affairs as one forgets one's dreams.

But it was just luck really if the girls survived. You're like a man firing a machine gun into a supermarket who happens not to become a murderer.

I felt a deep grief that crouched and stayed still as if it was afraid to move.