I don't believe other people are ever as foolishly excited as I am while I'm working. How could they be? Writers would… — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
Why it should be such an effort to write to the people one loves I can't imagine. It's none at all to… — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
Ah, what happiness it is to be with people who are all happy, to press hands, press cheeks, smile into eyes. — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
Would you not like to try all sorts of lives - one is so very small - but that is the satisfaction… — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
I really only have Perfect Fun with myself. Other people won't stop and look at the things I want to look at… — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
... I'd always rather be with people who loved me too little rather than with people who loved me too much. — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
“Everything about her was sweet, pale like honey. You would not have been surprised to see a bee caught in the tangles… — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
if one really does try to find out why it is that people don't leave each other, one discovers a mystery. It… — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
Winter is a terrible time for thin people - terrible! Why should it hound them down, fasten on them, worry them so?… — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
“I thought how true it was that the world was a delightful place if it were not for the people, and how… — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
In the shortest sea voyage there is no sense of time. You have been down in the cabin for hours or days… — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
“I do not know why I have such a fancy for this little café. It's dirty and sad, sad. It's not as… — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
“Shadow children, thin and small, Now the day is left behind, You are dancing on the wall, On the curtains, on the blind.” — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share
“Oh, with you, I could conquer the world - oh, with you I could catch hold of the moon like a little silver sixpence.” — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share
“I have made it a rule of my life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy...… — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share
“Leila was sure ifhe partner didn't come and she had to listen to that marvellous music and to watch the others sliding, gliding over… — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share
England is merely an island of beef swimming in a warm gulf stream of gravy. — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share
Perhaps it does not matter so very much what it is one loves in this world. But love something one must. — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share
Ah, what happiness it is to be with people who are all happy, to press hands, press cheeks, smile into eyes. — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share
I am poor - obscure - just eighteen years of age - with a rapacious appetite for everything and principles as light as my… — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share
“I used to believe I was merely words and I do not know whether I shall start hoping for something more. You planted that… — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share
