“ One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it. ”
A romantic man often feels more uplifted with two women than with one: his love seems to hit the ideal mark somewhere between two different faces.
~ Elizabeth Bowen
If they should only be ill,' she said, 'there would be so many little things we could do for them. It does seem in a kind of a way an opportunity. I often think it is only when a man is ill that he understands what a woman means in his life.
Livvy noted there seemed some communal feeling between the married: any wife could be faintly rude to anyone else's husband.
Writers do not find subjects, subjects find them.
