Eleanor

“She was so sure, so completely certain, as she entered any room, of her power, of her contribution to the sum of beauty in the world. And yet she had always been vulnerable too, wounded by the smallest slight, and turned into a pathetic self-doubting creature by such a nothing as a kind word left unsaid, or a sum she could not add.”
― Hermione Eyre, Viper Wine

“Mind you do think. Don't just take out your feelings and look at them, which is what passes for thought with most of us pitiful, self-centred creatures. Look at the question from everyone's point of view.”
― Elizabeth Goudge, A City of Bells

“Why untidy hair and an inability to make oneself understood should be the hall-mark of genius I have never been able to understand.”
― Elizabeth Goudge, A City of Bells

“We're Englishmen. For us the road always goes home again.”
― James Meek, To Calais, In Ordinary Time