Quotes from Marghanita Laski

and at last there was nothing but darkness, and in the darkness the ecstasy, and after the ecstasy, death and life.

To have the capacity for happiness was, presumably, to be able to envisage a future in which happiness could have its place.

Ordeals never turn out the way you expect them. Usually when the ones you are expecting finally arrive there is no question of decision at all, and the ordeals of decision turn up on quite other occasions.