Were we positive, eager, real — alive? No, we were not. We were a nothingness shot with gleams of what might be.


Letter to John Middleton Murry (11 October 1922), from The Letters of Katherine Mansfield, edited by J. Middleton Murry (1928)

Katherine Mansfield Quotes

Were we positive, eager, real — alive? No, we were not. We were a nothingness shot with gleams of what might be.

Were we positive, eager, real — alive? No, we were not. We were a nothingness shot with gleams of what might be.

Were we positive, eager, real — alive? No, we were not. We were a nothingness shot with gleams of what might be.

Were we positive, eager, real — alive? No, we were not. We were a nothingness shot with gleams of what might be.