Bowen, Elizabeth

"Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies."

"No, it is not only our fate but our business to lose innocence, and once we have lost that, it is futile to attempt a picnic in Eden." - Orion III

"The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We have really no absent friends." - The Death of the Heart

"Experience isn't interesting till it begins to repeat itself - in fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience." - The Death of the Heart

"There is no end to the violations committed by children on children, quietly talking alone." - The House in Paris

"Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat." - The House in Paris