Quotation by Elizabeth Bowen

The innocent are so few that two of them seldom meet—when they do meet, their victims lie strewn around.
Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973), British novelist, story writer, essayist, and memoirist; born in Ireland. From The Death of the Heart (1938). As quoted in Elizabeth Bowen, ch. 7, by Victoria Glendinning (1979).
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