Mary

“She could not go on a bus without having an adventure, usually brought about by not minding her own business, and there was always some curious incident to relate to Vinny when he returned home in the evening.”
― Elizabeth Taylor, The Sleeping Beauty

“Kate seemed to him today to be wounded and on the defensive, a mood that came and went, he knew, with women in their forties.”
― Elizabeth Taylor, In a Summer Season

“One is left so much on one’s own. People are shy of the bereaved. They don’t quite know what to be.”
― Elizabeth Taylor, The Sleeping Beauty

“Nearing fifty, Vinny felt more than ever the sweet disappointments only a romantic knows, whose very desires invite frustration; who loves twilight rather than midday, the echo more than the voice, the moon more than the sun, and women better than men;”
― Elizabeth Taylor, The Sleeping Beauty