“There had been a slice of time, somewhere sliding away from him now and fading into the slippery past, where Walker had been a happy man. Where his life should've ended to keep him from enduring any of the suffering beyond. But he had made it through that brief bliss and now could hardly recall it. He couldn't imagine what it felt like to rise with anticipation every morning, to fall asleep with contentment at the end of every day.””
“Walker was the one who had taught Scottie that it’s always okay to admit when you don’t know something. If you couldn’t do this, you would never truly know anything.””
“Walker’s note had said. The good had referred to the of Supply. After years of helping Juliette score spares when she needed them most, they had done something extraordinary for her.””
“Walker let out a long sigh of disgust for what had become of this generation.””
“So I apologised to Diane Keaton and watched Hugh Jackman in the movie Australia instead.””
Hugh Walker was a Scottish literary critic and biographer, renowned for his insightful analyses of Victorian poetry. His most notable works include 'The Age of Tennyson' and 'The Greater Victorian Poe...