The Collected Stories of Katherine Mansfield Quotes

“For the special thrilling quality of their friendship was in their complete surrender. Like two open cities in the midst of some vast plain their two minds lay open to each other. And it wasn't as if he rode into hers like a conqueror, armed to the eyebrows and seeing nothing but a gay silken flutter--nor did she enter his like a queen walking on soft petals. No, they were eager, serious travellers, absorbed in understanding what was to be seen and discovering what was hidden--making the most of this extraordinary absolute chance which made it possible for him to be utterly truthful to her and for her to be utterly sincere with him.”
― Katherine Mansfield, The Collected Stories

“How beautiful she loked, but there was nobody to see, nobody.”
― Katherine Mansfield, The Collected Stories of Katherine Mansfield

“... I find in all the works of the greatest writers, especially in their unedited letters, some touch, some sign of myself - some resemblance, some part of myself, like a thousand reflections of my own hands in a dark mirror.”
― Katherine Mansfield, The Collected Stories of Katherine Mansfield

“... always with that magical child air about her, that delightful sense of perpetually attending a party.”
― Katherine Mansfield, The Collected Stories of Katherine Mansfield

“But, my darling, if you love me,' thought Miss Meadows, 'I don't mind how much it is. Love me as little as you like.”
― Katherine Mansfield, The Collected Stories of Katherine Mansfield

“I long to do wild, passionate things.”
― Katherine Mansfield, The Collected Stories of Katherine Mansfield

“Although Bertha Young was thirty she still had moments like this when she wanted to run instead of walk, to take dancing steps on and off the pavement, to bowl a hoop, to throw something up in the air and catch it again, or to stand still and laugh at - nothing - at nothing, simply.”
― Katherine Mansfield, The Collected Stories of Katherine Mansfield

“I feel as though I were living in a world of strange beings — do you? It’s people that make things so — silly. As long as you can keep away from them you’re safe and you’re happy.”
― Katherine Mansfield, The Collected Stories of Katherine Mansfield

“... A wet night. They are going home together under an umbrella. They stop on the door to press their wet cheeks together.”
― Katherine Mansfield, The Collected Stories of Katherine Mansfield

“The smell of leaves and wet black earth mingled with the sharp smell of the sea.”
― Katherine Mansfield, The Collected Stories of Katherine Mansfield

“Regret is an appalling waste of energy, and no one who intends to be a writer can afford to indulge in it.”
― Katherine Mansfield, The Collected Stories of Katherine Mansfield

“Mi tragedia es mi madre. Viviendo con ella, vivo en el ataúd de mis aspiraciones nonatas”
― Katherine Mansfield, The Collected Stories of Katherine Mansfield

“It was simply marvelous. But Laurie--" She stopped, she looked at her brother. "Isn't life," she stammered, "isn't life--" But what life was she couldn't explain. No matter. He quite understood. "Isn't it, darling?" said Laurie.”
― Katherine Mansfield, Collected Stories

“¡Que noche! dijo -¿Conosce usted ese poema de Safo sobre sus manos en las estrellas...? Soy curiosamente sáfica. Y eso es tan importante... No sólo soy sáfica; encuentro en las obras de arte de todos los grandes autores, sobre todo en sus cartas inédtas, cierto aire, cierto indicio de mí misma... cierto parecido, cierta parte de mí misma, como mil reflejos de mis propias manos en un espejo oscuro

El espirítu moderno - En un balneario alemán”
― Katherine Mansfield, The Collected Stories of Katherine Mansfield