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Elizabeth von Arnim Quote: “This separate life, this freezing loneliness, she had had enough of it. Why shouldn’t she too be happy? Why on earth – the energetic expression matched her mood of rebelliousness – shouldn’t she too be loved and allowed to love?”
Elizabeth von Arnim Quote: “Certainly he did seem to be one of those men, rare in her experience, who never looked at a woman from the predatory angle. The comfort of this, the simplification it brought into the relations of the party, was immense. From this point of view Mr Wilkins was simply ideal; he was unique and precious.”
Elizabeth von Arnim Quote: “I have a peculiar capacity for doing nothing and yet enjoying myself.”
Elizabeth von Arnim Quote: “It’s in the air. You have to get fond of people here.”
Elizabeth von Arnim Quote: “They were just cups of acceptance.”
Elizabeth von Arnim Quote: “Why couldn’t two unhappy people refresh each other on their way through this dusty business of life by a little talk –.”
Elizabeth von Arnim Quote: “We are none of us ever thankful enough, and yet we each get so much, so very much, more than we deserve.”
Elizabeth von Arnim Quote: “Was it possible that loneliness had nothing to do with circumstances, but only with the way one met them?”
Elizabeth von Arnim Quote: “She thought she might like him if only he wouldn’t so excessively like her.”
Elizabeth von Arnim Quote: “Lotty, who never wanted anything of anybody, but was complete in herself and respected other people’s completeness?”
Elizabeth von Arnim Quote: “One loved being with Lotty. With her one was free, and yet befriended.”
Elizabeth von Arnim Quote: “The people round about are persuaded that I am, to put it as kindly as possible, exceedingly eccentric, for the news has traveled that I spend the day out of doors with a book...”
Elizabeth von Arnim Quote: “I was determined to find you first,” he said, “before I go to Rose.” And he added quickly, “I want to kiss your shoes.” “Do you?” said Scrap, smiling. “Then I must go and put on my new ones. These aren’t nearly good enough.”
Elizabeth von Arnim Quote: “How passionately she longed to be important to somebody again – not important on platforms, not important as an asset in an organization, but privately important, just to one other person, quite privately, nobody else to know or notice.”
Elizabeth von Arnim Quote: “There came a moment, she imagined, in the lives of most unmarried daughters, and perhaps in other people’s too, when they must either bolt or go permanently under.”
Elizabeth von Arnim Quote: “And Mr. Wilkins, much pleased with her, though it was still quite early in the day, a time when caresses are sluggish, pinched her ear.”
Elizabeth von Arnim Quote: “It was wonderful what a variety of exits from her corner Scrap contrived for Mr. Wilkins.”
Elizabeth von Arnim Quote: “There is no help, except what you dig out of your own self; and if I could make you see that I would have shown you all the secrets of life.”
Elizabeth von Arnim Quote: “Have you noticed, how difficult it is to be improper without men?”
Elizabeth von Arnim Quote: “Unable to be or do anything of themselves, the young of the present generation tried to achieve a reputation for cleverness by decrying all that was obviously great and obviously good and by praising everything, however obviously bad, that was different.”
Elizabeth von Arnim Quote: “He was bewildered, but he still could kiss. It seemed curiously natural to be doing it.”
Elizabeth von Arnim Quote: “But Briggs, when he realized her intention, leapt to his feet, snatched chairs which were not in her way out of it, kicked a footstool which was not in her path on one side, hurried to the door, which stood wide open, in order to hold it open, and followed her through it, walking by her side along the hall.”
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