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1. "He had no idea that he never went out of the house without her blessing going with him too, hovering, like a little echo of finished love, round that once dear head" ~ Elizabeth Von Arnim
2. "Always being there was the essential secret for a wife." ~ Elizabeth Von Arnim
3. "She belongs to the winter that is past, to the darkness that is over, and has no part or lot in the life I shall lead for the next six months. Oh, I could dance and sing for joy that the spring is here! What a ressurection of beauty there is in my garden, and of brightest hope in my heart." ~ Elizabeth Von Arnim
4. "If your lot makes you cry and be wretched, get rid of it and take another; strike out for yourself; don't listen to the shriek of your relations...don't be afraid of public opinion in the shape of the neighbours in the next house, when all the world is before you new and shining, and everything is possible, if you will only be energetic and independent and seize opportunity by the scruff of the neck." ~ Elizabeth Von Arnim
5. "And when I'm with you," she said, "I feel as if I were stuffed with—oh, with stars." ~ Elizabeth Von Arnim
6. "My dream, even now, is to walk for weeks with some friend that I love, leisurely wandering from place to place, with no route arranged and no object in view, with liberty to go on all day or to linger all day, as we choose; but the question of luggage, unknown to the simple pilgrim, is one of the rocks on which my plans have been shipwrecked, and the other is the certain censure of relatives, who, not fond of walking themselves, and having no taste for noonday naps under hedges, would be sure to paralyse my plans before they had grown to maturity by the honest horror of their cry, "How very unpleasant if you were to meet any one you know!" The relative of five hundred years back would have said "How Holy!" ~ Elizabeth Von Arnim
7. "... but it's fun being alive, isn't it? I feel as if I'd only got to stretch up my hands to all those stars and catch as many of them as I want to." ~ Elizabeth Von Arnim
8. "Nor would I willingly miss the early darkness and the pleasant firelight tea and the long evenings among my books." ~ Elizabeth Von Arnim
9. "But down from the end of the path it looked so charming that she wished she could paint it in watercolours—the great trees, the tempered sunlight, the glimpse of the old church at one end, the glimpse of the embosomed lake at the other, and in the middle, set out so neatly, with such a grace of spotlessness, the table of her first tea-party." ~ Elizabeth Von Arnim
10. "My step-mother looked at me at least once on each of these miserable days, and said: 'Rose-Marie, you look very odd. I hope you are not going to have anything expensive. Measles are in Jena, and also the whooping-cough.''Which of them is the cheapest?' I inquired.'Both are beyond our means,' said my step-mother severely." ~ Elizabeth Von Arnim
11. "Well, she had had the most wonderful summer; she had got that anyhow tucked away up the sleeve of her memory, and could bring it out and look at it when the days were wet and she felt cold and sick." ~ Elizabeth Von Arnim
12. "[Walking] is the perfect way of moving if you want to see into the life of things. It is the one way of freedom. If you go to a place on anything but your own feet you are taken there too fast, and miss a thousand delicate joys that were waiting for you by the wayside." ~ Elizabeth Von Arnim
13. "Submission to what people call their 'lot' is simply ignoble. If your lot makes you cry and be wretched, get rid of it and take another." ~ Elizabeth Von Arnim
14. "Reading was very important; the proper exercise and development of one's mind was a paramount duty." ~ Elizabeth Von Arnim
15. "For I'm afraid of loneliness; shiveringly, terribly afraid. I don't mean the ordinary physical loneliness, for here I am, deliberately travelled away from London to get to it, to its spaciousness and healing. I mean that awful loneliness of spirit that is the ultimate tragedy of life. When you've got to that, really reached it, without hope, without escape, you die. You just can't bear it, and you die." ~ Elizabeth Von Arnim
16. "I's lonely to stay inside oneself." ~ Elizabeth Von Arnim
17. "She made him think of his mother, of his nurse, of all things kind and comforting, besides having the attraction of not being his mother or his nurse." ~ Elizabeth Von Arnim
18. "I shall give you lovely food; and Papa says that lovely food is the one thing that ever really makes a man give himself the trouble to rise up and call his wife blessed." ~ Elizabeth Von Arnim
19. "Life is an admirable arrangement, isn't it, little mother. It is so clever of it to have June in every year and a morning in every day, let alone things like birds, and Shakespeare, and one's work." ~ Elizabeth Von Arnim
20. "...so I took it out with me into the garden, because the dullest book takes on a certain saving grace if read out of doors, just as bread and butter, devoid of charm in the drawing-room, is ambrosia eaten under a tree." ~ Elizabeth Von Arnim
21. "Tanto per cominciare, vorrei dire che sebbene genitori, mariti, figli, amanti e mariti siano tutti una gran bella cosa, non sono cani." ~ Elizabeth Von Arnim
22. "Alteri e distaccati, eternamente rapiti in remote, misteriose meditazioni, [i gatti] si concedono all'altrui adorazione ed è difficile che diano qualcosa in cambio. Eccetto le fusa." ~ Elizabeth Von Arnim
23. "Un'amicizia incapace di aiutare potrebbe benissimo fare a meno di esistere." ~ Elizabeth Von Arnim
24. "Penso che risulterebbe stancante essere legati per l'eternità al culmine dei momenti più ispirati dei massimi scrittori. Altitudini come quelle sarebbero inadatte a insetti come me. Su questi libri elevati me ne starei aggrappata alla bell'e meglio, con la testa e le ali penzolanti. E forse che anche l'anima non ha voglia, di tanto in tanto, di mettersi in vestaglia?" ~ Elizabeth Von Arnim
25. "Ora so che l'amore è l'unica cosa che valga davvero la pena di avere. Tutto il resto, talento, lavoro, arte, religione, conoscenza e tutti gli altri terreni affanni altro non sono che rimedi con i quali coloro che non amano, coloro che non sono amati, tentano di attenuare le loro pene, di anestetizzarsi." ~ Elizabeth Von Arnim
26. "Straordinario come ci si sente soli, laggiù nel profondo dell'animo, se manca un compagno di esultanze." ~ Elizabeth Von Arnim
27. "To think that you dared—to think that my—my noble boy—""He wasn't very noble. Mothers don't ever really know their sons, I think.""Shameless girl!" cried Mrs. Morrison, so loud, so completely beside herself, that Priscilla hastily rang her bell... "Open the door for this lady," she said to Annalise, who appeared with a marvellous promptitude; and as Mrs. Morrison still stood her ground and refused to see either Annalise or the door Priscilla ended the interview by walking out herself, with great dignity, into the bathroom." ~ Elizabeth Von Arnim
28. "You are all the happiness," he said, with an energy of conviction astonishing at half-past nine in the morning, "and all the music, and all the colour, and all the fragrance there is in the world." ~ Elizabeth Von Arnim
29. "But whether it was a proper shame for what she had done or a shocking shame for her compunctions in sinning, the Bishop was not permitted that afternoon to discover; because when she had got as far as that she was interrupted by being obliged to faint." ~ Elizabeth Von Arnim
30. "Keep quiet and say one's prayers—certainly not merely the best, but the only things to do if one would be truly happy; but, ashamed of asking when I have received so much, the only form of prayer I would use would be a form of thanksgiving." ~ Elizabeth Von Arnim
31. "Christopher loved her with the passion of youth, of imagination, of poetry, of all the fresh beginnings of wonder and worship that have been since love first lit his torch and made in the darkness a great light." ~ Elizabeth Von Arnim
32. "To me this out-of-the way corner was always a wonderful and a mysterious place, where my castles in the air stood close together in radiant rows, and where the strangest and most splendid adventures befell me; for the hours I passed in it and the people I met in it were all enchanted." ~ Elizabeth Von Arnim
33. "This radiant weather, when mere living is a joy, and sitting still over the fire out of the question, has been going on for more than a week." ~ Elizabeth Von Arnim
34. "She herself had certainly never been more alive. She felt electric. She would not have been surprised if sparks had come crackling out of the tips of her sober gloves." ~ Elizabeth Von Arnim
35. "What business, said Priscilla's look more plainly than any words, what business had people to walk into other people's cottages in such a manner? She stood quite still, and scrutinized Mrs. Morrison with the questioning expression she used to find so effective in Kunitz days when confronted by a person inclined to forget which, exactly, was his proper place. But Mrs. Morrison knew nothing of Kunitz, and the look lost half its potency without its impressive background. Besides, the lady was not one to notice things so slight as looks; to keep her in her proper place you would have needed sledge-hammers." ~ Elizabeth Von Arnim
36. "It was a place to bless God in and cease from vain words." ~ Elizabeth Von Arnim
37. "I never could see that delicacy of constitution is pretty, either in plants or women. No doubt there are many lovely flowers to be had by heat and constant coaxing, but then for each of these there are fifty others still lovelier that will gratefully grow in God's wholesome air and are blessed in return with a far greater intensity of scent and colour." ~ Elizabeth Von Arnim
38. "There's no safety in love. You risk the whole of life. But the great thing is to risk -to believe, and to risk everything for your belief." ~ Elizabeth Von Arnim
39. "I want to be as idle as I can, so that my soul may have time to grow." ~ Elizabeth Von Arnim
40. "Beauty made you love, and love made you beautiful." ~ Elizabeth Von Arnim
41. "... Why, it would really be being unselfish to go away and be happy for a little, because we would come back so much nicer." ~ Elizabeth Von Arnim
42. "Books have their idiosyncrasies as well as people, and will not show me their full beauties unless the place and time in which they are read suits them." ~ Elizabeth Von Arnim
43. "On wet days I will go into the thickest parts of the forest, where the pine needles are everlastingly dry, and when the sun shines I'll lie on the heath and see how the broom flares against the clouds. I shall be perpetually happy, because there will be no one to worry me." ~ Elizabeth Von Arnim
44. "Not the least of my many blessings is that we have only one neighbour. If you have to have neighbours at all, it is at leaset a mercy that there should be only one; for with people dropping in at all hours and wanting to talk to you, how are you to get on with your life, I should like to know, and read your books, and dream your dreams to your satisfaction?" ~ Elizabeth Von Arnim
45. "Sometimes callers from a distance invade my solitude, and it is on these occasions that I realize how absolutely alone each individual is, and how far away from his neighbour; and while they talk (generally about babies, past, present, and to come), I fall to wondering at the vast and impassable distance that separates one's own soul from the soul of the person sitting in the next chair." ~ Elizabeth Von Arnim
46. "He had the effect on her of a window being thrown open and fresh air and sunlight being let in" ~ Elizabeth Von Arnim
47. "September 15th. - This is the month of quiet days, crimson creepers, and blackberries; of mellow afternoons in the ripening garden; of tea under acacias instead of too shady beeches; of wood fires in the library in chilly evenings." ~ Elizabeth Von Arnim
48. "The passion for being for ever with one's fellows, and the fear of being left for a few hours alone, is to me wholly incomprehensible. I can entertain myself quite well for weeks together, hardly aware, except for the pervading peace, that I have been alone at all." ~ Elizabeth Von Arnim
49. "In bed by herself: adorable condition." ~ Elizabeth Von Arnim
50. "Now she had taken off her goodness and left it behind her like a heap of rain-sodden clothes, and she only felt joy." ~ Elizabeth Von Arnim
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