emotions really exist at the bottom of the personality or at the top. in the middle they are acted. this is why all the world is a stage.
Iris MurdochFalling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes.
Iris MurdochThere is a spider called Amaurobius, which lives in a burrow and has its young in the late summer, and then it dies when the frosts begin, and the young spiders live through the cold by eating their mother's dead body. One can't believe that's an accident. I don't know that I imagined God as having thought it all out, but somehow He was connected with the pattern, He was the pattern.
Iris Murdoch