Parke Godwin > Quotes

“The day comes when love means something beyond a reflection of ourselves, when there is more behind than ahead and the house of mind is haunted in every chamber with old songs, old ghosts, old hopes.”
― Parke Godwin, Firelord

“I’ve learned and unlearned all my life; it’s helped me to survive. There are no constants, nothing is immutable, only random circumstance from which our experience builds a coherent arc of life. And for that arc you have only to be truly done with one thing before moving to another. There’s an art in letting go.”
― Parke Godwin, Beloved Exile

“Part of what we are is whom we’ve loved.”
― Parke Godwin, Firelord

“Between blow and pain, there is that instant of numbness, an unreal moment...”
― Parke Godwin, Beloved Exile

“...for one instant, I saw the stars close enough to touch. Closer than that, part of me. Are they really so far or just that we never reach for them?”
― Parke Godwin, Beloved Exile

“There’s not a stone or leaf or life that men won’t put a name to. It gives them a nice safe box to collect things in. They get in the habit of collecting things and end up surprised at the weight they’re carrying. A dream they thought might fit someday, something bright and sweet like a woman, picked up for her shine and somehow never left or at least never forgotten. Or an ambition! There’s a fine item in any man’s bag. A great, glowing ambition. They never fade, never wear even when you’ve outgrown them. Always there to look at and remember and play might-have-been.”
― Parke Godwin, Firelord

“Love and hell are alike in that respect; they are what you bring to them. The script is yours; only the props are furnished.”
― Parke Godwin, Waiting for the Galactic Bus

“Tomorrow belongs to those who can learn. For those who can’t, there’s only yesterday.”
― Parke Godwin, Beloved Exile

“Where do the strong go to be weak?”
― Parke Godwin, Firelord

“I know why men lose sight of the face of God: because it is so close.”
― Parke Godwin, Firelord

“You go through it like a dark room, you sweat, you fear, the fear passes, you come out of it and utter nothing but meaningless words about what you saw or felt.”
― Parke Godwin, Firelord

“A while ago in real-time you saw the eagles. And you wished.”
― Parke Godwin, Firelord

“The soft, fluttering cry of a barn owl rose over the churchyard. Silent men flowed out of the dark.”
― Parke Godwin

“And youth, though they see every day the cradle and grave shaped so alike, never believe death will happen to them. I told you it was a comedy.”
― Parke Godwin, Firelord

“Perhaps a moment comes when must is to tired to fight and want breaks free to cry I am just once before the sun goes down.”
― Parke Godwin, Firelord

“See that day as I remember it. A day in June, River Severn rolling to the sea, diamonded with sunlight, gulls gliding over the quays on a mild breeze that lifted the Red Dragon standard over Camelot. A quiet enough day for the end of my world.”
― Parke Godwin, Beloved Exile

“Religion is what you sing on Sunday. Your true faith is what you want all week.”
― Parke Godwin, Waiting for the Galactic Bus

“Lovers have a language that can be lost--how to speak, how to touch, when to try.”
― Parke Godwin, Beloved Exile

“...hear the language, this English, double-jointed as Bedivere's limbs. It only sounds awkward. In its ability to join one concept to another as with pegs, its dependent clauses, figures of speech and cadenced alliteration, a man can say one thing five ways and yet imply a sixth; can change meaning with an inflection, a pause or a deliberate misuse of a word, can mock, scorn and flay an opponent without uttering one overt insult.”
― Parke Godwin, Beloved Exile

“We play very dangerous games with life and no one knows our rules.”
― Parke Godwin, Firelord

“I can't think of it now. It costs too much.”
― Parke Godwin, Masterpieces of Terror and the Supernatural

“I am aged with a sickness of the mind.”
― Parke Godwin, Masterpieces of Terror and the Supernatural

“She never thought she was that kind of girl; now she knew there wasn’t any other.”
― Parke Godwin, Waiting for the Galactic Bus

“So we survive, it is the world.”
― Parke Godwin, Masterpieces of Terror and the Supernatural

“Neither of us deserves tomorrow.”
― Parke Godwin