Elizabeth Bowen Quotes
With three or more people there is something bold in the air: direct things get said which would frighten two people alone and conscious of each inch of their nearness to one another. To be three is to be in public - you feel safe.
Citations
Bowen, Elizabeth. The Death of the Heart. Victor Gollancz, 1938, p. 201.
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Elizabeth Bowen CBE was an Anglo-Irish novelist and short story writer notable for her fiction about life in wartime London.