It doesn't matter what people call you unless they call you pigeon pie and eat you up
Evelyn WaughThat day was the beginning of my friendship with Sebastian, and thus it came about, that morning in June, that I was lying beside him in the shade of the high elms watching the smoke from his lips drift up into the branches.
Evelyn WaughTags: infatuation june smoke shade lips
..perhaps all our lovers are merely hints and symbols; vagabond languages scrawled on gate-posts and paving stones along the weary road that others have trampled before us; perhaps you and I are types and this sadness which sometimes falls between us springs from disappointment in our search, each straining through and beyond each other, snatching a glimpse now and then of the shadow which turns the corner always a pace or two ahead of us.
Evelyn WaughTags: melancholia
it's a great thing in life to have a place you can't be moved from - too few of them
Evelyn WaughTags: place
What is a "canty day", Dennis?'
'I've never troubled to ask. Something like hogmanay, I expect.'
'What is that?'
'People being sick on the pavement in Glasgow.'
'Oh.
Tags: humour
It doesn't matter what people call you unless they call you pigeon pie and eat you up.
Evelyn WaughThe fortnight at Venice passed quickly and sweetly-- perhaps too sweetly; I was drowning in honey, stingless.
Evelyn WaughA whole Gothic world had come to grief...there was now no armour glittering through the forest glades, no embroidered feet on the green sward; the cream and dappled unicorns had fled...
Evelyn WaughTags: grief endings gothic end passing
you seem to find everything banal." "it's a new word whose correct use i have only lately learnt,' said josephine with dignity. 'i find it applies to nearly everything.
Evelyn WaughNow we shall both be alone, and I shall have no way of making you understand.'
'I don't want to make it easier for you,' I said; 'I hope your heart may break; but I do understand.
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