Stories Quotes

“If one person has loved another truly and wholly, then it is more than love that collapses when one side of the indissoluble partnership turns away with a tearful goodbye.”
― Doris Lessing, Stories

“Mrs. Pearson said dryly: “I can’t see me cluttering myself up with kids if I didn’t have to. You wouldn’t catch me marrying and getting kids if I had my chance over again, but it takes all sorts to make a world.”
― Doris Lessing, Stories

“One day he had meant everything to her, he represented her future, and the next, he meant nothing.”
― Doris Lessing, Stories

“Inside she was dissolving in horror at them both, at how far they had both sunk from honesty of emotion.”
― Doris Lessing, Stories