The best Quotes by Elizabeth Bowen

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The best Quotes by Elizabeth Bowen

Elizabeth Bowen (7 June 1899 - 22 February 1973) was an Irish-British novelist and short story writer notable for her books about the "big house" of Irish landed Protestants as well her fiction about life in wartime London.

When you love someone all your saved up wishes start coming out.

Writers do not find subjects; subjects find them.

Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting.

The innocent are so few that two of them seldom meet - when they do meet, their victims lie strewn all round.

Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.

Spring Autumn & Fall

Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.

No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye.

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It is strange with how little notice, good, bad, or indifferent, a man may live and die in London.

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If you're curious, London's an amazing place.

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I've often thought a blind man could find his way through London simply by gauging the changes in innuendo: mild through Trafalgar Square, less veiled towards the river.

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I have nothing against Orlando, though you are, of course, far more likely to get shot or robbed there than in London.

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I don't miss London much. I find it crowded, vast and difficult to get around. Cabs are incredibly expensive.

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London. The beating heart of England.

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England is my home. London is my home. New York feels like, if I have to spend a year living in an unfamiliar city, this is a pretty lovely one to spend a year in, but I will be going home at the end of it, certainly.

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Even a short stay in Dublin is like walking into literary history, accompanied by music.

My Dublin wasn't the Dublin of sing-songs, traditional music, sense of history and place and community.

Colin Farrell

I'm just a kid that defied the odds. I'm just a kid that ignored the doubt. I'm just a kid from a little place in Dublin, Ireland, that went all the way, and I'm going to continue to go all the way.

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When I die, Dublin will be written in my heart.

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Dublin is one of my favourite cities. It's an absolutely amazing place.

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I've only been to Dublin once, and I had a great time. I got completely soaked because it was rainy.

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They say money can't buy happiness. But it can book your flight to Dublin - which is kinda the same.

Poetry, she thought, wasn't written to be analyzed, it was meant to inspire without reason, to touch without understanding.

Nicholas Sparks in The Notebook

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A living poem had always been the words that came to mind when he tried to describe her to others.

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The world is full of magic. Small things become big. Winter turns to spring. One thing always changes into another.

Denahi in Brother Bear

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Spring Change Magic

Nearly everybody gets twitterpated in the springtime. For example, you're walking along minding your own business, you're looking neither to the left, nor to the right, when all of the sudden, you run smack into a pretty face. You begin to get weak in the knees, your head's in a whirl! And then you feel light as feather, and before you know it you're walking on air! And then you know what? You're knocked for a loop! And you completely lose your head!

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There is a time in the last few days of summer when the ripeness of autumn fills the air.

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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.

George Eliot

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Even the smallest person can change the course of the future.

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Small Things Fate & Destiny

Fate is called as such, for it cannot be changed, nor can it be reversed. It can only but be accepted.

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After all, you still need time to just sit there and take a look around.

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"Oh yes, time flies and before you know it you're old," said Pippi. "Come autumn I'll be ten, and I suppose I'll be past my prime then."

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It's real, Six. You can't get mad at a real ending. Some of them are ugly. It's the fake happily ever afters that should piss you off.

Colleen Hoover in Hopeless

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I want you to help them open... because I need you to watch me give you the very last piece of my heart.

Colleen Hoover in Hopeless

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What other people think of you is none of your business.

Paulo Coelho

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Self-Confidence Gossip & Rumors

If you're brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello.

Paulo Coelho

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Change Beginning

This is the true measure of love: When we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will ever love in the same way after us.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Children & Childhood Family Parents

The Light failed; but the Darkness that followed was more than loss of light.

J.R.R. Tolkien in The Silmarillion

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The Elves made many rings; but secretly Sauron made One Ring to rule all the others, and their power was bound up with it.

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Whether you come back by page or by the big screen, Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home.

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I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book.

Joanne K. Rowling

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The first time you fall in love, it changes you forever and no matter how hard you try, that feeling just never goes away.

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Every girl is beautiful. Sometimes it just takes the right guy to see it.

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Love Beauty Valentine's Day

She was beautiful, but not like those girls in the magazines. She was beautiful, for the way she thought. She was beautiful, for the sparkle in her eyes when she talked about something she loved. She was beautiful, for her ability to make other people smile, even if she was sad. No, she wasn't beautiful for something as temporary as her looks. She was beautiful, deep down to her soul.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Beauty Love declerations

The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.

F. Scott Fitzgerald in The Great Gatsby

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Solitude & Loneliness

Hope is like a shard of glass. Tread on it, and you'll end up wincing with every step. The best policy is to tweezer it out. Sure, it will hurt like billy-o and the wound will take a while to heal, but after that you can walk again.

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Hope Breakup Grief & Condolence

"Lost something?"
"Yes, my mind."

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The dead are dead, and talking won't bring them back to life.

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"It's no use fretting for what you can't get," croaked the raven. "Does being angry make any difference? Be sensible! What can you do about it?"

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There are so many magical places in books that you can't go to, like Hogwarts and Middle Earth, so I wanted to set a story in a place where children can actually go.

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