The Enchanted April quotes

Why, it would really be being unselfish to go away and be happy for a little, because we would come back so much nicer.

— Spoken by a character · Chapter 1

Reading was very important; the proper exercise and development of one’s mind was a paramount duty.

Why couldn’t two unhappy people refresh each other on their way through this dusty business of life by a little talk—real, natural talk, about what they felt, what they would have liked, what they still tried to hope?

In bed by herself: adorable condition.

Always being there was the essential secret for a wife.

Was it possible that loneliness had nothing to do with circumstances, but only with the way one met them?

They left off talking. They ceased to mention heaven. They were just cups of acceptance.

Now she had taken off all her goodness and left it behind her like a heap of rain-sodden clothes, and she only felt joy.

“But there are no men here,” said Mrs. Wilkins, “so how can it be improper? Have you noticed,” she inquired of Mrs. Fisher, who endeavoured to pretend she did not hear, “how difficult it is to be improper without men?”

— Mrs. Wilkins · Chapter 12

Beauty made you love, and love made you beautiful. . .

Nobody could have put her in the shade, blown out her light that evening; she was too evidently shining.

And there they were, arrived; and it was San Salvatore; and their suit-cases were waiting for them; and they had not been murdered.

The very feel of her hand, even through its glove, was reassuring; it was the sort of hand, he thought, that children would like to hold in the dark.

Once more she had that really rather disgusting suspicion that her life till now had not only been loud but empty.

“I’m sure it’s wrong to go on being good for too long, till one gets miserable. And I can see you’ve been good for years and years, because you look so unhappy”—Mrs.

— Mrs. Wilkins · Chapter 1