A plot is like the bones of a person, not interesting like expression, or signs of experience, but the support of the whole.
Ivy Compton-BurnettParents have too little respect for their children, just as the children have too much for the parents.
Ivy Compton-BurnettWell, Buttermere, this is a day that is good to live and breathe in, that makes a man feel in his prime. Standing here in front of my house, I feel as young as when I moved into it thirty years ago, in the year eighteen hundred and fifty-nine. What aged man would you take me to be, as I step as it were casually into your view?
Ivy Compton-Burnett