"You don’t know a woman until you have had a letter from her."
"There is, of course, no joy so great as the cessation of pain; in fact all joy, active or passive, is the cessation of some pain, since it must be the satisfaction of a longing, even perhaps an unconscious longing."
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Source: Ada Leverson (1962). “The little Ottleys: Love's shadow. Tenterhooks. Love at second sight”
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