As a novelist, I cannot occupy myself with "characters," or at any rate central ones, who lack panache, in one or another sense, who would be incapable of a major action or a major passion, or who have not a touch of the ambiguity, the ultimate unaccountability, the enlarging mistiness of persons "in history." History, as more austerely I now know it, is not romantic. But I am.
Elizabeth BowenReason can never reconcile one to life: nothing allays the wants one cannot explain.
Elizabeth BowenThe silence of a shut park does not sound like country silence: it is tense and confined.
Elizabeth Bowen