(39 quotes found)
“When you love someone, all your saved-up wishes start coming out.”
Elizabeth Bowen
“Good-byes breed a sort of distaste for whomever you say good-bye to; this hurts, you feel, this must not happen again”
“Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak.”
“Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.”
“Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies”
“Never to lie is to have no lock on your door, you are never wholly alone”
“If you look at life one way, there is always cause for alarm”
“The innocent are so few that two of them seldom meet - when they do meet, their victims lie strewn all round”
“First love, with its frantic haughty imagination, swings its object clear of the everyday, over the rut of living, making him all looks, silences, gestures, attitudes, a burning phrase with no context”
“Who is ever adequate? We all create situations each other can't live up to, then break our hearts at them because they don't.”
