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

“You are born, you are a he or a she, and you live until you die... Willy-nilly.”
― Rumer Godden, The River

“I will not pretend to justify this espionage I carried on, and I will say openly that all these signs of a life full of intellectual curiosity, but thoroughly slovenly and disorderly at the same time, inspired me at first with aversion and mistrust. I am not only a middle-class man, living a regular life, fond of work and punctuality; I am also an abstainer and a nonsmoker, and these bottles in Haller's room pleased me even less than the rest of his artistic disorder.”
― Hermann Hesse, Steppenwolf