Every brilliant and fearless woman I have ever met has been utterly terrified most days. No one is perfect; some people are just better at appearing so than others.
“For the first time I was learning how much easier it was to leave than to stay behind and love.”
― As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning
― As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning
“All destruction eventually leads to construction, all death eventually leads to birth, all pain eventually leads to pleasure. In this life or the next, what goes down will come up. It’s a matter of how we see the challenge in front of us and how we engage with it. Persist, pivot, or concede. It’s up to us, our choice every time.”
― Greenlights
― Greenlights
“She was too honest, too natural for this frightened man; too remote from his tidy laws. She was, after all, a country girl; disordered, hysterical, loving. She was muddled and mischievous as a chimney-jackdaw, she made her nest of rags and jewels, was happy in the sunlight, squawked loudly at danger, pried and was insatiably curious, forgot when to eat or ate all day, and sang when sunsets were red.”
― Cider with Rosie
― Cider with Rosie
“One place suits on person, another place suits another person. For my part, I prefer to live in the country, like Timmy Willie.”
― The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse
― The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse
“Not everyone requires, nor seeks, the stimulus of the recurring image. They are content to be without directions. But for those of us who are branded by this particular mark, at least we know where we're going.
We are going, as it were, on a series of seasonal journeys, the climax of which is simply returning home.”
― Village Christmas and Other Notes on the English Year
We are going, as it were, on a series of seasonal journeys, the climax of which is simply returning home.”
― Village Christmas and Other Notes on the English Year
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