“Jealousy is the weapon of Distrust”

“It is impossible to distrust one's writing without awakening a deeper distrust in oneself.”

“He distrusted her affection; and what loneliness is more lonely than distrust.”

“Perhaps the sexual life is the great test. If we can survive it with charity to those we love and with affection to those we have betrayed, we needn't worry so much about the good and the bad in us. But jealousy, distrust, cruelty, revenge, recrimination ... then we fail. The wrong is in that failure even if we are the victims and not the executioners. Virtue is no excuse.”

“Distrust naturally creates distrust, and by nothing is good will and kind conduct more speedily changed.”

“I could see Eirene well enough to aim. SO I did. I aimed my weapon and thought of Bruno locked in a postcoital embrace with her. I embraced my jealousy. Then I pulled the trigger. - Celia Grave page 372”