“If one believed in angels one would feel that they must love us best when we are asleep and cannot hurt each other; and what a mercy it is that once in every twenty-four hours we are too utterly weary to go on being unkind.”Elizabeth von Arnim Source: The Solitary Summer
“… Why, it would really be being unselfish to go away and be happy for a little, because we would come back so much nicer.”Elizabeth von Arnim book The Enchanted AprilSource: The Enchanted April
“He had the effect on her of a window being thrown open and fresh air and sunlight being let in”Elizabeth von Arnim book VeraSource: Vera