How hard it is to escape from places. However carefully one goes they hold you — you leave little bits of yourself fluttering on the fences — like rags and shreds of your very life. – Katherine Mansfield
I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing. – Katherine Mansfield
Bless you, my darling, and remember you are always in the heart — oh tucked so close there is no chance of escape — of your sister. – Katherine Mansfield
Its a terrible thing to be alone – yes it is – it is – but dont lower your mask until you have another mask prepared beneath – as terrible as you like – but a mask. – Katherine Mansfield
California, that advance post of our civilization, with its huge aircraft factories, TV and film studios, automobile way of life… its flavourless cosmopolitanism, its charlatan philosophies and religions, its lack of anything old and well-tried rooted in tradition and character. – J.B. Priestley