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The Death of the Heart

Name: The Death of the Heart
Author: Elizabeth Bowen

The Death of the Heart is a 1938 novel by Elizabeth Bowen set in the interwar period. It is about a sixteen-year-old orphan, Portia Quayne, who moves to London to live with her half-brother Thomas and falls in love with Eddie, a friend of her sister-in-law.

“A romantic man often feels more uplifted with two women than with one: his love seems to hit the ideal mark somewhere between two different faces.”

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“She walked about with the rather fated expression you see in photographs of girls who have subsequently been murdered, but nothing had so far happened to her.”

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“Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself — in fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience.”

Elizabeth Bowen book The Death of the Heart

The Death of the Heart (1939)

“Intimacies between women go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending up in small talk without loss of esteem.”

Elizabeth Bowen book The Death of the Heart

Part 2, chapter 1 http://books.google.com/books?id=6DPQAAAAMAAJ&q=%22intimacies+between+women+go+backwards+beginning+with+revelations+and+ending+up+in+small+talk+without+loss+of+esteem%22&pg=PA172#v=onepage <br class="br">The Death of the Heart (1939)

“The heart may think it knows better: The senses know that absence blots people out. We have really no absent friends.”

Elizabeth Bowen book The Death of the Heart

The Death of the Heart (1939)