Littlevision

“Harriet was silent, thinking, and then she said, "It is too hard to be a person. You don't only have to go on and on. You have to be--" she looked for the word she needed and could not find it. Then, "You have to be tall as well," said Harriet.”
― Rumer Godden, The River

“So many grown-up people seem to be nothing very much.”
― Rumer Godden, The River

“Sometimes,' she said, remembering that morning, 'I write poems that are taller than I am”
― Rumer Godden, The River

“A friend said, "Ah, I get it. All of my life I have gone into every next event asking, in effect, What's in it for me? Now I see that what I must do is go into every event asking, What can I do for them?" And my friend had grievously missed the point. The great discovery is that we have nothing to give at all to anyone, anywhere.”
― Joseph Chilton Pearce, Magical Child