"The Death of the Heart" Quotes
"The Death of the Heart" by Elizabeth Bowen explores the emotional turmoil and coming-of-age of a sensitive young girl navigating complex adult relationships in 1930s London.
fiction | 418 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
It is a comfort to know that things go on being done and being done well.
One never knows how much one can endure until the breaking point is reached.
People are wrong when they say that everything is good in love.
The first time you see him, you won't think he's good-looking. But he grows on you.
It must be hard to be happy when you are fifteen and a half.
The worst of doing one's duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else.
There is no end of the evil that is done under heaven.
A world that is a broken heart and a lost spirit.
The best things can never be talk'd about.
It is a good thing to have all the props pulled out from under us now and again.
