It is strange that there are times when I feel the stars are not at all solemn: they are secretly gay.
Katherine Mansfield... I'd always rather be with people who loved me too little rather than with people who loved me too much.
Katherine MansfieldWarm, eager, living life-to be rooted in life-to learn, to desire, to know, to feel, to think, to act. This is what I want. And nothing less. That is what I must try for.
Katherine MansfieldWhat happiness it is to listen to rain at night; joyful relief, ease; a lapping-round and hushing and brooding tenderness, all are mingled together in the sound of the fast-falling rain. God, looking down upon the rainy earth, sees how faint are these lights shining in little windows, - how easily put out.
Katherine Mansfield