If one believed in angels one would feel that they must love us best when we are asleep and cannot hurt each other; and what a mercy it is that once in every twenty-four hours we are too utterly weary to go on being unkind.
Love isn't decent. Love is glorious and shameless. - Elizabeth Von Arnim
Love isn't decent. Love is glorious and shameless.
- Elizabeth Von Arnim
[Walking] is the perfect way of moving if you want to see into the life of things. It is the one way of freedom. If you go to a place on anything but… - Elizabeth Von Arnim
[Walking] is the perfect way of moving if you want to see into the life of things. It is the one way of freedom. If you go to a place on anything but…
What a blessing it is to love books. - Elizabeth Von Arnim
What a blessing it is to love books.
Well, I for one am unable to imagine how anybody who lives with an intelligent and devoted dog can every be lonely. - Elizabeth Von Arnim
Well, I for one am unable to imagine how anybody who lives with an intelligent and devoted dog can every be lonely.
... Why, it would really be being unselfish to go away and be happy for a little, because we would come back so much nicer. - Elizabeth Von Arnim
... Why, it would really be being unselfish to go away and be happy for a little, because we would come back so much nicer.
But it is impossible, I find, to tidy books without ending by sitting on the floor in the middle of a great untidiness and reading. - Elizabeth Von Arnim
But it is impossible, I find, to tidy books without ending by sitting on the floor in the middle of a great untidiness and reading.
There's no safety in love. You risk the whole of life. But the great thing is to risk -to believe, and to risk everything for your belief. - Elizabeth Von Arnim
There's no safety in love. You risk the whole of life. But the great thing is to risk -to believe, and to risk everything for your belief.
What a blessing it is to love books. Everybody must love something, and I know of no objects of love that give such substantial and unfailing returns… - Elizabeth Von Arnim
What a blessing it is to love books. Everybody must love something, and I know of no objects of love that give such substantial and unfailing returns…
And the summer seems as though it would dream on for ever. - Elizabeth Von Arnim
And the summer seems as though it would dream on for ever.
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