Vera Maharani

“It is beautiful, beautiful to give; one of the very most beautiful things in life.”
― Elizabeth von Arnim, Fraulein Schmidt and Mr Anstruther

“Isn't it a mercy that we never get cured of being expectant? It makes life so bearable. However regularly we are disappointed and nothing whatever happens, after the first blow has fallen, after the first catch of the breath, the first gulp of misery, we turn our eyes with all their old eagerness to a point a little further along the road.”
― Elizabeth von Arnim, Fraulein Schmidt and Mr Anstruther

“Love is industrious in tormenting itself.”
― Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, The Sylph

“The only thing to do with one's old sorrows is to tuck them up neatly in their shroud and turn one's face away from their grave towards what is coming next.”
― Elizabeth von Arnim, In the Mountains