You can’t conceive the perverse ingenuity he could put into hiding his affections.

For with him the phantoms of the mind (which to the average man are merely phantoms) projected themselves with a bodily vividness and violence. Not only had they the colour and authority of accomplished fact, they were invested with an immortality denied to facts.

And I wasn't a journalist any more than I was a trained nurse.

At the moment you are no longer an observing, reflecting being; you have ceased to be aware of yourself; you exist only in that quiet, steady thrill that is so unlike any excitement that you have ever known.

The War will leave none of us as it found us.

if you don't believe in yourself, you'll have some difficulty in making other people believe in you.

when you think you've got hold of a genius ... you can't be sure whether it's a spark of the divine fire or a mere flash in the pan.

Knowing reality is knowing that you can't lose it.

people in great trouble don't change to other people. They only change to themselves.

In the last death we shall be shut up in this room, behind that locked door, together. We shall lie here together, for ever and ever, joined so fast that even God can't put us asunder. We shall be one flesh and one spirit, one sin repeated for ever, and ever; spirit loathing flesh, flesh loathing spirit; you and I loathing each other.''Why? Why?' she cried.'Because that's all that's left us. That's what you made of love.