Elizabeth Dorothea Cole Bowen ( BOH-ən; 7 June 1899 – 22 February 1973) was an Anglo-Irish novelist and short story writer notable for her books about "the Big House" of Irish landed Protestants as well as her fiction about life in wartime London.
Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting.
Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.
Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.
Nobody speaks the truth when there's something they must have.
If you look at life one way, there is always cause for alarm.