Nothing can happen nowhere. The locale of the happening always colours the happening, and often, to a degree, shapes it. – Elizabeth Bowen
Who is ever adequate? We all create situations each other can’t live up to, then break our hearts at them because they don’t. – Elizabeth Bowen
Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do. – Elizabeth Bowen
It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pockets. – Elizabeth Bowen
There is no end to the violations committed by children on children, quietly talking alone. – Elizabeth Bowen
Experience isn’t interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience. – Elizabeth Bowen
All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you are unnerved. – Elizabeth Bowen
The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. – Elizabeth Bowen
Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk. – Elizabeth Bowen
Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain. – Elizabeth Bowen
