I’ve always felt absolutely certain [life] was good — if only one could get it straightened out. I’ve hated almost everything that ever happened to me, but I knew all the time it was just things that were wrong, not everything. Even when I felt most awful I never thought of killing myself or wanting to die — only of somehow getting out of the mess and starting again.

Dorothy Sayers (1893-1957) English author, translator

Busman’s Honeymoon, ch. 14 [Harriet] (1937)