Helen Cullen > Quotes

“Consider this - when you ask a child to draw you a picture, or tell you a story, they never refuse because they 'aren't creative.' We just learn as we get older whether we're allowed to call ourselves the anymore because we're trained only to invest time in what we are 'good at.' And its a tragedy - when we can't create purely for the joy it brings us. Don't be afraid to play, Fionn. It's good for the soul.”
― Helen Cullen, The Dazzling Truth: A Novel

“And he wasn’t prepared to ask questions tonight that might draw from her answers too brutal to bear. Her conviction to the truth was her great strength; his inability to hear it his great weakness.”
― Helen Cullen, The Truth Must Dazzle Gradually

“In years to come, he would look back on those days and realize they had just experienced their longest period of uninterrupted happiness and yet, while they were living it, they thought there was so much to worry about.”
― Helen Cullen