For the Sake of Elena Quotes

“Dawn snuffs out star’s spent wick,
Even as love’s dear fools cry evergreen,
And a languor of wax congeals the vein
No matter how fiercely lit.”
― Elizabeth George, For the Sake of Elena

“He himself had died with her.”
― Elizabeth George, For the Sake of Elena

“Are you saying, in effect, that one can’t get on with living unless one puts ghosts from the past to rest?”
― Elizabeth George, For the Sake of Elena

“Instead he fell in love. With a woman who also fell in love with him. And that tends to obviate past injustices, doesn’t it? One can hardly concentrate on destroying the self when the other becomes so much more important.”
― Elizabeth George, For the Sake of Elena

“will to create. Yes”—as if she expected disagreement—“the will, because it is an act of will. It’s more than being called upon by some convenient artistic muse. It’s making a decision to offer up a bit of one’s essence to the judgement of others.”
― Elizabeth George, For the Sake of Elena

“They merely fell into marriage, which, after all, was the highest form of public validation he could possibly give to a mindless act of sex with a woman he didn’t know.”
― Elizabeth George, For the Sake of Elena