Barbara Vine Quotes & Sayings

Lean on me," someone says in Jane Austen to a woman he scarcely knows, and there's no question but that she will, that she takes it for granted. — Barbara Vine

Empty minds are abhorred by thought as vacuums are by nature. — Barbara Vine

His books distracted him for a while. They were like the aspirins you take when you've got a headache. They kill the pain for two hours and then it comes back. — Barbara Vine

Our children, when young, are part of ourselves. When they grow up they are just other people. — Barbara Vine

Ivo had grown more and more like one of those characters in his books who are always groaning about their miserable fate in helplessly loving someone unworthy of their love. Maugham never says much about what that's like for the poor old unworthy object. I could have told him. It's not exactly uplifting for the self-image. — Barbara Vine

Why do you always wear black?"
She delighted me with her answer, the correct, the only, answer. "I'm in mourning for my life. I'm unhappy. — Barbara Vine

Without me, without me,
Everyday's misery.
But with me - am I wrong?
No night is too long! — Barbara Vine