Francesca Blom

“Friendship in youth represents sympathy without understanding; in age, understanding without sympathy.”
― Dawn Powell, The Diaries, 1931-1965

“That's the way people were. Nobody believed in the things you believed but yourself, nobody believed that even you were really sincere about it, people believed whatever was good business for them at the time. Nobody believed in anything but good business.”
― Dawn Powell, Dance Night

“Oh, of course, it was a sad role, the lover no longer loving. But once the perfunctory sympathy was given him the heart went outfully to oneself, the real victim, the unloved.”
― Dawn Powell, Angels on Toast

“A capacity for going overboard is a requisite for a full-grown mind.”
― Dawn Powell