"One's sentiments -- call them that -- one's fidelities are so instinctive that one hardly knows they exist: only when they are betrayed or, worse still, when one betrays them does one realize their po..."
- Elizabeth Bowen
"Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies."
"He specialized in a particular kind of friendship with that eight-limbed, inscrutable, treacherous creature, the happily married coupe, adapting himself closely and lightly to the composite personalit..."
"Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day."
"Proust has pointed out that the predisposition to love creates it's own objects: is this not also true of fear?"
"When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out."
"No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye."
"All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted when you find it taken for granted you are unnerved."
"Silences have a climax when you have got to speak."
"With three or more people there is something bold in the air: direct things get said which would frighten two people alone and conscious of each inch of their nearness to one another. To be three is t..."