Darling, I don't want you; I've got no place for you; I only want what you give. I don't want the whole of anyone.... What you want is the whole of me-isn't it, isn't it?-and the whole of me isn't there for anybody. In that full sense you want me I don't exist.

Quote by Elizabeth Bowen

38 No. 2 (1990)
Roy F. After spending some years without a permanent home Bowen finally settled in 'Carbery' Church Hill Hythe in 1965.

Elizabeth Dorothea Cole Bowen CBE (7 June 1899 – 22 February 1973) was an Irish novelist and short story writer.