Elizabeth Bowen

Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.

No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye.

Nobody can be kinder than the narcissist while you react to life in his own terms.

Another thing that freaks me out is time. Time is like a book. You have a beginning, a middle and an end. It's just a cycle.

It is hardly surprising that women concentrate on the way they look instead of what is in their minds since not much has been put in their minds to begin with.

I like globalization; I want to say it works, but it is hard to say that when six hundred million people are slipping backwards.