For it is a peculiarity of persons who lead rich emotional lives and who (as the saying is) live intensely and with a wild poetry, that they read all kinds of meanings into comparatively simple actions, especially the actions of other people, who do not live intensely and with a wild poetry. Thus you may find them weeping passionately on their bed, and be told that you- and you alone- are the cause because you said that awful thing to them at lunch.

--Stella Gibbons, 'Cold Comfort Farm'