Katherine Mansfield People Quotations

Why it should be such an effort to write to the people one loves I can't imagine. It's none at all to write to those who don't really count.

... I'd always rather be with people who loved me too little rather than with people who loved me too much.

if one really does try to find out why it is that people don't leave each other, one discovers a mystery. It is because they can't; they are bound. And nobody on earth knows what are the bonds that bind them except those two.

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.