A good start in life is as important to plants as it is to children: they must develop strong roots in a congenial soil, otherwise they will never make the growth that will serve them richly according to their needs in their adult life.
Vita Sackville-WestIt is dreadful how I miss you, and everything that everybody says seems flat and stupid.
Vita Sackville-WestAmong the many problems which beset the novelist, not the least weighty is the choice of the moment at which to begin his novel.
Vita Sackville-WestIt isn't that I don't like sweet disorder, but it has to be judiciously arranged.
Vita Sackville-WestI just miss you, in a quite simple desperate human way. Oh my dear, I can’t be clever and stand-offish with you: I love you too much for that. Too truly.You have no idea how stand-offish I can be with people I don’t love. I have brought it to a fine art. But you have broken down my defences. And I don’t really resent it.
Vita Sackville-West