Rose Macaulay — English Novelist born on August 01, 1881, died on October 30, 1958

Dame Emilie Rose Macaulay, DBE was an English writer, most noted for her award-winning novel The Towers of Trebizond, about a small Anglo-Catholic group crossing Turkey by camel. The story is seen as a spiritual autobiography, reflecting her own changing and conflicting beliefs. Macaulay’s novels were partly-influenced by Virginia Woolf; she also wrote biographies and travelogues... (wikipedia)

It was a book to kill time for those who like it better dead.
You should always believe what you read in the newspapers, for that makes them more interesting.
Love's a disease. But curable.
It is a common delusion that you make things better by talking about them.
Each wrong act brings with it its own anesthetic, dulling the conscience and blinding it against further light, and sometimes for years.