Pleasure Reading

Victoria Pastukhova
Nov 5 · 2 min read

I’m really sorry for abandoning my Pleasure Reading blog like this. My book “Brideshead Revisited” abounds in good quotes, what I can’t say about vocabulary(I’m not saying it’s bad, it’s just not as interesting as quotes).For example:

“Oh, Charles, don’t be such a tourist. What does it matter when it was built if it’s pretty?”

So many of us can relate, right?;) Indeed, if a building or a monument is beautiful for most of us the century doesn’t matter. However, sometimes we need to know when it was built to understand more the culture of this or taht century.

“It is a kind of love that comes to children before they know its meaning. In England it comes when you are almost men; I think I like that. It is better to have that kind of love for another boy than for a girl.”

It’s interesting how a woman compares a children’s love and the fact that it comes at such a mature age.Kids do not lie, do not pretend and exaggerate their feelings, they simply love unconditionally.

“She has done nothing except being loved by someone who was not grown up.”

A lot of women love and are loved by someone who can’t treat them right, even though they might love them to death. These men don’t know what to do or how to maintain a healthy relationship just because they are not mature enough to understand(they can be 30 or 40 and still it will be a problem). They do it not because they are cruel, bad or evil people who want to hurt their beloved, but because they simply are not capable of loving them right or they don’t have enough courage to act.

Next thing I wanted to mention is a metaphor which can be used by many of us. “He is a volcano of hate”. Here, the man hates his ex-wife to such an extent that he couldn’t even breath the same air as she. Literally, he couldn’t even come to the country where she lived. Sometimes he didn’t even want to speak to their son because he was related to her(which is nonsense, of course). So, I guess this is a good expression when a person despises somebody. I don’t think that it can be used with the word love, because volcano is something bad, intimidating and grave.

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