Elizabeth Bowen Quote

First love, with its frantic haughty imagination, swings its object clear of the everyday, over the rut of living, making him all looks, silences, gestures, attitudes, a burning phrase with no context.


The House in Paris (ed. 1935)


First love, with its frantic haughty imagination, swings its object clear of the everyday, over the rut of living, making him all looks, silences,...

First love, with its frantic haughty imagination, swings its object clear of the everyday, over the rut of living, making him all looks, silences,...

First love, with its frantic haughty imagination, swings its object clear of the everyday, over the rut of living, making him all looks, silences,...

First love, with its frantic haughty imagination, swings its object clear of the everyday, over the rut of living, making him all looks, silences,...