Katherine Mansfield

The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.

Would you not like to try all sorts of lives - one is so very small - but that is the satisfaction of writing - one can impersonate so many people.

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

This is not a letter but my arms around you for a brief moment.

Whenever I prepare for a journey I prepare as though for death. Should I never return, all is in order.