14 Quotes by Elizabeth Harrower

You wonder why he cleared out tonight, do you? Do you? I'll tell you why. I can tell you. You don't know, do you? You don't know - do you? No, that's right. But Mr. Shaw does. Mr. Shaw knows. He's out tonight so he can be amongst men. Men. That's why. Yes. That's why. You didn't know that, did you? You're too stupid, to know he's sick in his guts of being in a house full of women. Christ! They're not fit - they're not fit for me to vomit on. That's why. You're just - things.

If we lived forever, there would be time to recover from mistakes of twenty years duration.

I was attracted to the strangeness of his mind as a psychiatrist might have been drawn to an interesting case. he wanted a resident analyst. Neither of us understood.

How unfair to everyone that the knowing of one person, the separation, should so poison and diminish every other association.

The city, to her, meant a few particular blocks – the best blocks – lying together in a neat rectangle, linked by arcades and department stores; three streets one way, cut by four at right angles, bound at the top by gardens, self-enclosed at the bottom and either end. Three or four times a week she walked the streets of these blocks, smelt the coffee, the flowers, the rich expensive leather, the cosmetics.