Oh, how quickly things changed! Why didn't happiness last for ever? For ever wasn't a bit too long.
Katherine MansfieldWinter is a terrible time for thin people - terrible! Why should it hound them down, fasten on them, worry them so? Why not, for a change, take a nip, take a snap at the fat ones who wouldn't notice? But no! It is sleek, warm, cat-like summer that makes the fat one's life a misery. Winter is all for bones.
Katherine MansfieldWind moving through grass so that the grass quivers. This moves me with an emotion I don't even understand.
Katherine MansfieldAs in the physical world, so in the spiritual world, pain does not last forever.
Katherine Mansfield