Ghosts, we hope, may be always with us - that is, never too far out of the reach of fancy. On the whole, it would seem they adapt themselves well, perhaps better than we do, to changing world conditions - they enlarge their domain, shift their hold on our nerves, and, dispossessed of one habitat, set up house in another. The universal battiness of our century looks like providing them with a propitious climate.
Elizabeth Bowen...the power-loving temperament is more dangerous when it either prefers or is forced to operate in what is materially a void. Wehave everything to dread from the dispossessed.
Elizabeth BowenStyle is the thing that's always a bit phony, and at the same time you cannot write without style.
Elizabeth BowenHabit is not mere subjugation, it is a tender tie; when one remembers habit it seems to have been happiness.
Elizabeth Bowen