"The Oxford Muse - Zeldin's website"

"I'm all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults."

"The world is violent and mercurial — it will have its way with you. We are saved only by love — love for ea…"

"Although we talk so much about coincidence we do not really believe in it. In our heart of hearts we think …"

"You think you know what I am, she thought, but all you’ve got is stories."

"Nature knows no indecencies; man invents them."

"When she was home from her boarding-school I used to see her almost every day sometimes, because their hous…"