Elizabeth Bowen CBE (; 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.
If you look at life one way, there is always cause for alarm.
Nobody speaks the truth when there's something they must have.
Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.
Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.
I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.
—Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider