“And then when I got home I burrowed about among my books, arranging their volumes and loving the feel of them.” — Elizabeth von Arnim Copy Share Image
“Nor would I willingly miss the early darkness and the pleasant firelight tea and the long evenings among my books.” — Elizabeth von Arnim Copy Share Image
But it is impossible, I find, to tidy books without ending by sitting on the floor in the middle of a great… — Elizabeth von Arnim Copy Share Image
When I got to the library I came to a standstill, - ah, the dear room, what happy times I have spent… — Elizabeth von Arnim Copy Share Image
“She would go off in the morning with the punt full of books, and spend long glorious days away in the forest… — Elizabeth von Arnim Copy Share Image
“What a place for him who intends to pass an examination, to write a book, or who wants the crumples got by… — Elizabeth von Arnim Copy Share Image
“Oh, my dear, this is worse than I expected! A strange girl is always a bore among good friends, but one can… — Elizabeth von Arnim Copy Share Image
“...so I took it out with me into the garden, because the dullest book takes on a certain saving grace if read… — Elizabeth von Arnim Copy Share Image
What a blessing it is to love books. Everybody must love something, and I know of no objects of love that give… — Elizabeth von Arnim Copy Share Image
Books have their idiosyncrasies as well as people, and will not show me their full beauties unless the place and time in… — Elizabeth von Arnim Copy Share Image
“Not the least of my many blessings is that we have only one neighbour. If you have to have neighbours at all,… — Elizabeth von Arnim Copy Share Image
“I would have all couples neatly paired in years, the forties with the forties, and the twenties with the twenties. Should the forties, as… — Elizabeth von Arnim Copy Share Image
“When I drive to the lupins and see them all spread out as far as eye can reach in perfect beauty of colour and… — Elizabeth von Arnim Copy Share Image
She had been dragged in the most humiliating of all dusts, the dust reserved for older women who let themselves be approached, on amorous… — Elizabeth von Arnim Copy Share Image
It is beautiful, beautiful to give; one of the very most beautiful things in life. — Elizabeth von Arnim Copy Share Image
“I asked nothing better of life. I still ask nothing better of life. Strange to say—for surely it is strange not to have increased… — Elizabeth von Arnim Copy Share Image
“No one ever said aloud any of the kinds of things he was so constantly thinking, because no one in the parish, not Alice,… — Elizabeth von Arnim Copy Share Image
“The only thing to do with one's old sorrows is to tuck them up neatly in their shroud and turn one's face away from… — Elizabeth von Arnim Copy Share Image
“She belongs to the winter that is past, to the darkness that is over, and has no part or lot in the life I… — Elizabeth von Arnim Copy Share Image
“This radiant weather, when mere living is a joy, and sitting still over the fire out of the question, has been going on for… — Elizabeth von Arnim Copy Share Image
“And when I'm with you," she said, "I feel as if I were stuffed with—oh, with stars.” — Elizabeth von Arnim Copy Share Image
“Here was the world wide-awake and yet only for me, all the fresh pure air only for me, all the fragrance breathed only by… — Elizabeth von Arnim Copy Share Image
