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Elizabeth von Arnim

The Enchanted April

  • missninamembuat kutipan3 tahun yang lalu
    How passionately she longed to be important to somebody again—not important on platforms, not important as an asset in an organization, but privately important, just to one other person, quite privately, nobody else to know or notice. It didn't seem much to ask in a world so crowded with people, just to have one of them, only one out of all the millions, to oneself. Somebody who needed one, who thought of one, who was eager to come to one—oh, oh how dreadfully one wanted to be precious!
  • missninamembuat kutipan3 tahun yang lalu
    oh, she wanted to cling to something tangible, to love something living, something that one could hold against one's heart, that one could see and touch and do things for.
  • missninamembuat kutipan3 tahun yang lalu
    I was a stingy beast at home, and used to measure and count. I had a queer obsession about justice. As though justice mattered. As though justice can really be distinguished from vengeance. It's only love that's any good.
  • missninamembuat kutipan3 tahun yang lalu
    She gave a sigh of contentment, and went on lying there looking round her, taking in everything in her room, her own little room, her very own to arrange just as she pleased for this one blessed month, her room bought with her own savings, the fruit of her careful denials, whose door she could bolt if she wanted to, and nobody had the right to come in.
  • missninamembuat kutipan3 tahun yang lalu
    "We're in God's hands," said Mrs. Arbuthnot again; and again Mrs.
    Wilkins was afraid.
  • missninamembuat kutipan3 tahun yang lalu
    Which of course it wasn't; which certainly of course it wasn't.
  • missninamembuat kutipan3 tahun yang lalu
    and you look so—you look exactly as if you wanted it just as much as I do—as if you ought to have a rest—have something happy happen to you.
  • missninamembuat kutipan3 tahun yang lalu
    "And just the considering of them is worth while in itself—such a change from Hampstead—and sometimes I believe—I really do believe—if one considers hard enough one gets things."
  • missninamembuat kutipan3 tahun yang lalu
    Why couldn't two unhappy people refresh each other on their way through this dusty business of life by a little talk—real, natural talk, about what they felt, what they would have liked, what they still tried to hope?
  • Noel Baileymembuat kutipan3 tahun yang lalu
    "But there are no men here," said Mrs. Wilkins, "so how can it be improper? Have you noticed," she inquired of Mrs. Fisher, who endeavoured to pretend she did not hear, "How difficult it is to be improper without men?"
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