if you cannot get what you want, common sense suggests that you should put your mind to wanting what you can get.
Patricia WentworthBeing in a rage was rather like being out in a thunderstorm - you couldn't hear yourself think.
Patricia WentworthThe fact is, people who don't have any misfortunes are very irritating to their neighbours. No opportunities for popping in with condolences and new-laid eggs. No visits to the afflicted. No opportunities for the milk of human kindness to flow. Naturally it doesn't.
Patricia WentworthThere is and always has been for me a peculiar need to write. This is very different from wanting to be a writer. To be a writer always seemed something so far removed from my talents and abilities and imaginings that it didn't afflict me at all as a notion when I was young. But I was always conscious that I wanted to write.
Patricia Wentworth