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The Enchanted April
Elizabeth von Arnim
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Beauty made you love, and love made you beautiful.”
“... Why, it would really be being unselfish to go away and be happy for a little, because we would come back so much nicer.”
“How they had dreamed together, he and she... how they had planned, and laughed, and loved. They had lived for a while in the very heart of poetry.”
“It is true she liked him most when he wasn't there, but then she usually liked everybody most when they weren't there.”
“Now she had taken off her goodness and left it behind her like a heap of rain-sodden clothes, and she only felt joy.”
“I'm sure it's wrong to go on being good for too long, till one gets miserable. And I can see you've been good for years and years, because you look so unhappy.”
“How passionately she longed to be important to somebody again - not important on platforms, not important as an asset in an organisation, but privately important, just to one other person, quite privately, nobody else to know or notice. It didn't seem much to ask in a world so crowded with people, just to have one of them, only one out of all the millions to oneself. Somebody who needed one, who thought of one, who was eager to come to one - oh, oh how dreadfully one wanted to be precious.”
“All the radiance of April in Italy lay gathered together at her feet. The sun poured in on her. The sea lay asleep in it, hardly stirring. Across the bay the lovely mountains, exquisitely different in color, were asleep too in the light; and underneath her window, at the bottom of the flower-starred grass slope from which the wall of castle rose up, was a great cypress, cutting through the delicate blues and violets and rose-colors of the mountains and the sea like a great black sword. She stared. Such beauty; and she there to see it. Such beauty; and she alive to feel it. Her face was bathed in light.”
“Reading was very important; the proper exercise and development of one's mind was a paramount duty.”
“This was the simple happiness of complete harmony with her surroundings, the happiness that asks for nothing, that just accepts, just breathes, just is.”
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Book Keywords:
reading, happiness, love, dreams, poetry, mind