In a Summer Season Quotes

“We should leave our love-making till the dead of night,’ she thought. ‘And bury it secretly in sleep.”
― Elizabeth Taylor, In a Summer Season

“As a person much confided in, she had learnt how to let her mind wander a little on a tether, and now she looked out of the taxi at the sun flashing high on buildings and thought what a lovely late afternoon it was.”
― Elizabeth Taylor, In a Summer Season

“Kate seemed to him today to be wounded and on the defensive, a mood that came and went, he knew, with women in their forties.”
― Elizabeth Taylor, In a Summer Season

“Kate refused to go to bed - for if she slept, she would have to wake up, she said, and that she could not bear to do-to face afresh the grief she was as yet so little used to.”
― Elizabeth Taylor, In a Summer Season

“Poor Lou, I did nothing for her,’ Kate suddenly thought. It is a most severe pain—the realisation that one has failed one’s child, done less than one might have done; but she continued to smile bravely.”
― Elizabeth Taylor, In a Summer Season

“Kate was always, like most mothers, wasting words and knowing she wasted them.”
― Elizabeth Taylor, In a Summer Season

“Kate has no job, nor does she pursue an interest; she cannot develop. Her life is as circular as the novel it defines.”
― Elizabeth Taylor, In a Summer Season