“I wish,' said Rose anxiously, 'I understood you.' 'Don't try,' said Lotty, smiling. 'But I must, because I love you.” — Elizabeth von Arnim Copy Share Image
There's no safety in love. You risk the whole of life. But the great thing is to risk -to believe, and to… — Elizabeth von Arnim Copy Share Image
The longer I live the greater is my respect for manure in all its forms. — Elizabeth von Arnim Copy Share Image
... without it (love), without, anyhow, the capacity for it, people didn't seem to be much good. Dry as old bones, cold… — 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
“He had no idea that he never went out of the house without her blessing going with him too, hovering, like a… — Elizabeth von Arnim Copy Share Image
Impossible for anyone to conceive the torments of his nights in bed with his beloved one and estranged from her. That turning… — Elizabeth von Arnim Copy Share Image
“Christopher loved her with the passion of youth, of imagination, of poetry, of all the fresh beginnings of wonder and worship that… — Elizabeth von Arnim Copy Share Image
“Love is not a thing you can pick up and throw into the gutter and pick up again as the fancy takes… — Elizabeth von Arnim Copy Share Image
“How passionately she longed to be important to somebody again - not important on platforms, not important as an asset in an… — Elizabeth von Arnim Copy Share Image
“I WOULD LIKE, to begin with, to say that though parents, husbands, children, lovers and friends are all very well, they are… — 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
