Kalie

“By this time the Gentle Reader is thinking that people who go to church and sing in the choir should not make love in hayfields.”
― Stella Gibbons, Nightingale Wood

“The room was perfectly quiet, with that padded, luxurious quietness that only money can buy in a modern city. However noisy the streets below may be, noises falter, discouraged, before they can climb to the top flats in such buildings as Hyde House; like those bees which never discover the luckless virgin flowers in the penthouse gardens of New York. It is not a peaceful silence. There is something drugged and enchanted about it. Conditioned air, central heating, and sound-proof walls are the only magicians employed to produce this hush, yet it gives a strange feeling to a visitor of being cut off from the living world.”
― Stella Gibbons, My American

“Never could stand very clever people. Oh, I like them very much, but I always feel like a piece of furniture they want to move out of their way.”
― Compton Mackenzie, Sinister Street

“You are always wanting other people to act in some drama which you have invented.”
― Iris Murdoch