Elizabeth Bowen - 🦋 Beautiful Quotes

Elizabeth Bowen | women

Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk.

Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain.

Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.

When you love someone all your saved up wishes start coming out.

Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope it is impossible.

Experience isn’t interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience.

Education is not so important as people think.

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