6 Quotes by Celia Fremlin

Love isn’t relevant once things are really bad. They say love makes the world go round-but it doesn’t, you know. Love is a luxury, and you indulge in it when things are OK. As soon as they are bad-really bad-there just isn’t a place for it anymore-no place where there could be room for it.

Hope lights up our darkness.

The only really satisfactory confidante for your troubles is someone who enjoys them, and this inevitably cuts out anyone who actually loves you.

Troubles, even the dullest, are always mildly interesting at the first hearing...

The beautiful, the inessential, must be given priority if it was to exist at all.

A man’s character, she reflected with surprise, consists a good deal more of the way people feel and behave towards him than of the way he himself feels and behaves.