When it comes to bombshells, ...

When it comes to bombshells, there are few that can be more effective than that small, flat, frail thing, a letter.
 Margaret Deland

Quotes from the same author

What I object to in Mother is that she wants me to think her thoughts. Apart from the question of hypocrisy, I prefer my own.
 Margaret Deland
There is a bond, it appears, between mother and child which endures as long as they do. It is independent of love; reason cannot weaken it; hate cannot destroy it.
 Margaret Deland
A pint can't hold a quart - if it holds a pint it is doing all that can be expected of it.
 Margaret Deland
One must desire something to be alive; perhaps absolute satisfaction is only another name for Death.
 Margaret Deland
Absurdity is the one thing love can't stand; it can overlook anything else, -- coldness, or weakness, or viciousness, -- but just be ridiculous and that's the end of it!
 Margaret Deland