Quotes from Elizabeth Bowen

There is no end to the violations committed by children on children, quietly talking alone.

Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.

I think the main thing, don't you, is to keep the show on the road.

Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience.

If you look at life one way, there is always cause for alarm.

Forgiveness should be an act, but this is a state with him.

Dogs are a habit, I think.

That is partly why women marry - to keep up the fiction of being in the hub of things.

The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. The friend becomes a traitor by breaking, however unwillingly or sadly, out of our own zone: a hard judgment is passed on him, for all the pleas of the heart.

When you love someone, all your saved-up wishes start coming out.