Elizabeth Bowen

Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.

If you look at your life one way, there is always cause for alarm.

If you look at life one way, there is always cause for alarm.

When you love someone, all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

No object is mysterious. The mystery is in your eyes.

Nobody can be kinder than the narcissist while you react to life in his own terms.

Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.

Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.

Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting.

Autumn arrives in the early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.