“Empty minds are abhorred by thought as vacuums are by nature.” — Barbara Vine Nature Copy Share Image
“I think life's too long to do anything that we know is wrong before we begin.” — Barbara Vine Life Copy Share Image
“Time, the best of all doctors, though it kills you in the end, had done more than therapy could.” — Barbara Vine Medicine Copy Share Image
“Without me, without me, Everyday's misery. But with me - am I wrong? No night is too long!” — Barbara Vine Night Copy Share Image
“Events in his own past he never thought of as evil but rather as mistaken, immensely regrettable, brought about by fear and… — Barbara Vine Fear Copy Share Image
“Games were being played, that was all, and games of which he was largely ignorant and wished to remain so.” — Barbara Vine Copy Share Image
“Our children, when young, are part of ourselves. When they grow up they are just other people.” — Barbara Vine Child Copy Share Image
“You do not put off things because they threaten you, because you are afraid; It was a rule of life.” — Barbara Vine Fear Copy Share Image
“Lewis would have agreed with Oscar Wilde that our past is what we are. We cannot rid ourselves of it.” — Barbara Vine Copy Share Image
“His books distracted him for a while. They were like the aspirins you take when you've got a headache. They kill the… — Barbara Vine Books Copy Share Image
“Love is about allowing. Love is about letting people be free. You leave the cage door open and if you're really loved,… — Barbara Vine Love Copy Share Image
“The hands of the watch stood at five past eight. The only kind of death that can be accurately predicted to the… — Barbara Vine Death Copy Share Image
“Evil was a stupid word. It had the same sort of sense, largely meaningless, amorphous, diffuse, wooly, as applied to "love." Everyone… — Barbara Vine Evil Copy Share Image
“Isak Dinesen said that life is no more than a process for turning healthy young puppies into mangy old dogs and man… — Barbara Vine Life Copy Share Image
“I am not in this world to live up to your expectations and you are not in this world to live up… — Barbara Vine Beautiful Copy Share Image
“The safest way to live is first, inherit money, second be born without a taste for liquor, third, have a legitimate job… — Barbara Vine Marriage Copy Share Image
“By the age I was then I ought to know the truism that things always look different in the morning. As the… — Barbara Vine Fear Copy Share Image
“But it was more than that. There was an indefinable ingredient, a kind of excitement. It had something to do with history… — Barbara Vine Copy Share Image
“Those who have inside their lives an empty space need to fill it with love if they can, and if they cannot,… — Barbara Vine Empty space Copy Share Image
“The wonderful thing about the human mind is the way it copes when the worst happens. Beyond that worst happening you think… — Barbara Vine Death Copy Share Image
