That is the great handicap of sexual love, that lovers can share everything except what explains the past, of which their enjoyment is a part. - Rebecca West

It's important that we clearly defined what we need from our home so we don't get distracted by what someone else might want if it were their home.

(Happy Starts at Home: Getting the Life You Want by Changing the Space You've Got, Rebecca West)

There is not the smallest reason for confounding nationalism, which is the desire of a people to be itself, with imperialism, which is the desire of a people to prevent other peoples from being themselves.

When we talked to them we always expressed the love we felt for them and never made the chilling remarks which the part of us undesirous of friendship sometimes tricked us into making to those who might possibly have become our friends.