Elizabeth Bowen Quote

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope, it is impossible.


The Death of the Heart (1938)


Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope, it is impossible.

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope, it is impossible.

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope, it is impossible.

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope, it is impossible.