Elizabeth Bowen Quote

For people who live on expectations, to face up to their realization is something of an ordeal. Expectations are the most perilous form of dream, and when dreams do realize themselves it is in the waking world: the difference is subtly but often painfully felt.


The Death of the Heart (1938)


For people who live on expectations, to face up to their realization is something of an ordeal. Expectations are the most perilous form of dream, and ...

For people who live on expectations, to face up to their realization is something of an ordeal. Expectations are the most perilous form of dream, and ...

For people who live on expectations, to face up to their realization is something of an ordeal. Expectations are the most perilous form of dream, and ...

For people who live on expectations, to face up to their realization is something of an ordeal. Expectations are the most perilous form of dream, and ...