“This was the simple happiness of complete harmony with her surroundings, the happiness that asks for nothing, that just accepts, just breathes,… — Elizabeth von Arnim Copy Share Image
... Why, it would really be being unselfish to go away and be happy for a little, because we would come back… — Elizabeth von Arnim Copy Share Image
“You are all the happiness," he said, with an energy of conviction astonishing at half-past nine in the morning, "and all the… — Elizabeth von Arnim Copy Share Image
“, and there were days last winter when I danced for sheer joy out in my frost-bound garden, in spite of my… — Elizabeth von Arnim Copy Share Image
On wet days I will go into the thickest parts of the forest, where the pine needles are everlastingly dry, and when… — Elizabeth von Arnim Copy Share Image
“I don't believe there was ever anybody who loved being happy as much as I did. What I mean is that I… — 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… — Elizabeth von Arnim Copy Share Image
“A good thing this was, and that we should be so care-free and irresponsible, enjoying every minute of every day; for it… — Elizabeth von Arnim Copy Share Image
“The years lay spread out before her, spacious untouched canvases on which she was presently going to paint the picture of her… — 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
