Everything is 'colossalized' - events, fortunes, accidents, climate, conversation, ambitions - everything is in the extreme ... They can't even have a tram run off a line, which in England or France might kill one or two people, without its making a holocaust of half a street full. ... The thing which surprises me is they should still employ animals of normal size; one would expect to see elephants and mammoths drawing the hansoms and carts!
Elinor Glyndo you not feel that sometimes in life one's friendships begin by antipathy - sometimes by indifference - and sometimes by that sudden magnetism of sympathy as if in some former life we had been very near and dear, and were only picking up the threads again, and to such two souls there is no feeling that they are strangers.
Elinor GlynIt's that quality possessed by some which draws al others with magnetic force. With 'IT' you win all men if you are a womanโand all women if you are a man. 'IT' can be a quality of the mind as well as a physical attraction.
Elinor GlynThe duration of love in a being always depends upon the loved one. I create an emotion in you, as you create one in me. You do not create it in yourself.
Elinor Glyn