“ I swear that each of us keeps, battened down inside himself, a sort of lunatic giant - impossible socially, but full-scale - and that it's the knockings and baterrings we sometimes hear in each other… Elizabeth Bowen
“ Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk. Elizabeth Bowen
“ 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… Elizabeth Bowen
“ For people who live on expectations to face up to their realization is something of an ordeal. Elizabeth Bowen
“ 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
“ 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. Elizabeth Bowen
“ Proust has pointed out that the predisposition to love creates it's own objects: is this not also true of fear? Elizabeth Bowen
“ Habit is not mere subjugation it is a tender tie when one remembers habit it seems to have been happiness. Elizabeth Bowen
“ Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience. Elizabeth Bowen
“ Karen, her elbows folded on the deck-rail, wanted to share with someone the pleasure in being alone: this is the paradox of any happy solitude. She had never landed at Cork, so this hill and that hill… Elizabeth Bowen
