How idiotic civilization is! Why be given a body if you have to keep it shut up in a case like a rare, rare fiddle?
Katherine MansfieldIt is strange that there are times when I feel the stars are not at all solemn: they are secretly gay.
Katherine MansfieldYes, my mother's death is a terrible sorrow to me. I feel - do you know what I mean - the silence of it so. She was more alive than anyone I have ever known.
Katherine Mansfield