“Besides, aren't you dying to see our bedroom?" "Dying," said Lucy, going up the oak staircase with a stout, determined heart.” — Elizabeth von Arnim Copy Share Image
“I shall give you lovely food; and Papa says that lovely food is the one thing that ever really makes a man… — 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
“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
“These women accept their beatings with a simplicity worthy of all praise, and far from considering themselves insulted, admire the strength and… — Elizabeth von Arnim Copy Share Image
“The evil times had come of eking out, of making do. At least, my husband seemed to regard the times we had… — Elizabeth von Arnim Copy Share Image
“Mr. Dawson's wife was really so very meek that I fear when the Day of Reckoning comes much of this tyranny will… — Elizabeth von Arnim Copy Share Image
“In the eighties, when she chiefly flourished, husbands were taken seriously, as the only real obstacles to sin. Beds too, if they… — 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
