How rarely can happiness be really innocent and not triumphant, not an insult to the deprived.
Iris MurdochEvery persisting marriage is based on fear', said Peregrine. 'Fear is fundamental, you dig down in human nature and what's at the bottom? Mean spiteful cruel self-regarding fear, whether it makes you to put the foot in it or whether it makes you to cower.
Iris Murdoch