"Each of us keeps battened down inside himself a sort of lunatic giant -impossible socially but full-scale. It's the knockings and batterings we sometimes hear in each other that keep our intercours..."
- Elizabeth Bowen
"Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies."
"Some people are molded by their admirations others by their hostilities."
"Habit is not mere subjugation it is a tender tie when one remembers habit it seems to have been happiness."
"If you look at life one way there is always cause for alarm."
"Who ever is adequate? We all create situations which others can't live up to then break our hearts at them because they don't."
"For people who live on expectations to face up to their realization is something of an ordeal."
"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..."