Task Mistress Quotes by L.P. Hartley

“But I was not so much interested in facts themselves as in the importance they had for my imagination. I was passionately interested in…

— L.P. Hartley

“I had never met a lord before, nor had I ever expected to meet one. It didn't matter what he looked like: he was…

— L.P. Hartley

“How terrifyingly efficient she sounds," said Stephen. "I think I should faint in her presence.”

— L.P. Hartley

You insisted on thinking of them as angels, even if they were fallen angels.

— L.P. Hartley

My dream had become my reality: my old life was a discarded husk.

— L.P. Hartley

“...for the first time I couldn't feel really interested in my mother's letter. The small concerns of home, instead of coming close to me…

— L.P. Hartley

“I should not have cared to see it as an act of self-sacrifice even if it had been one; for there is nothing clever…

— L.P. Hartley

“Not Adam and Eve, after eating the apple, could have been more upset than I was.”

— L.P. Hartley

“Even the most impassioned devotee of the ghost story would admit that the taste for it is slightly abnormal, a survival, perhaps, from adolescence,…

— L.P. Hartley

“If my twelve-year-old self, of whom I had grown rather fond, thinking about him, were to reproach me: 'Why have you grown up such…

— L.P. Hartley

Grown-ups didn't seem to realize that for me, as for most other schoolboys, it was easier to keep silent than to speak. I was…

— L.P. Hartley

It's better to write about things you feel than about things you know about.

— L.P. Hartley