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The Last September QUOTES

The Last September QUOTES

1 " If they should only be ill,' she said, 'there would be so many little things we could do for them. It does seem in a kind of a way an opportunity. I often think it is only when a man is ill that he understands what a woman means in his life. "

― Elizabeth Bowen , The Last September

2 " Livvy noted there seemed some communal feeling between the married: any wife could be faintly rude to anyone else's husband. "

― Elizabeth Bowen , The Last September

3 " She thought she need not worry about her youth; it wasted itself spontaneously, like sunshine elsewhere or firelight in an empty room. "

― Elizabeth Bowen , The Last September

4 " But surely love wouldn't get so much talked about if there were not something in it? "

― Elizabeth Bowen , The Last September

5 " A smell of sandalwood boxes, a kind of glaze on the air from all the chintzes numbed his earthy vitality, he became all ribs and uniform. "

― Elizabeth Bowen , The Last September

6 " There must be perfect towns where shadows were strong like buildings, towns secret without coldness, unaware without indifference. "

― Elizabeth Bowen , The Last September

7 " And because no one answered or cared and a conversation went on without her she felt profoundly lonely, suspecting once more for herself a particular doom of exclusion. Something of the trees in their intimacy of shadow was shared by the husband and wife and their host in the tree-shadowed room. She thought of love with its gift of importance. "I must break in on all this," she thought as she looked around the room. "

― Elizabeth Bowen , The Last September

8 " made articulate seemed to "

― Elizabeth Bowen , The Last September

9 " She had this one limitation, his darling Lois; she couldn’t look on her own eyes, had no idea what she was, resented almost his attention being so constantly fixed on something she wasn’t aware of. "

― Elizabeth Bowen , The Last September

10 " What is it exactly,” she asked, “that they mean by freedom? What does it affect? What is it besides an excuse for war? "

― Elizabeth Bowen , The Last September