8 Quotes by Edith Pargeter

He sat staring before him, seeing nothing but a long line of Mortimers, inexhaustable and prolific to the end of time.

A dead eagle he might have buried, but he had chosen rather to light a fire for a phoenix.

Not his match! And have you not the heart in you to be anything but best? How many are his match? How many in this world do you think stand in the front rank? Are all the rest of us to give up and sit on our hands rather than serve humbly where we deserve?

If you cannot imagine pain fully, neither can you fully imagine the resources you have in you to meet it and overcome it.

Do you think you're the only one groping? We're all in the dark together. Wait until God please to clear the sky.

It seemed to him that something which had always contained and confined him was broken, that he was loosed from it for ever; but whether he came forth into freedom or exile was something he could not determine.

The habit of questioning everything can be dangerous, for sooner or later it will surely bring a man into head-on collision with the unquestionable, and he will not be able in conscience to draw aside.

There’s nothing in this world within arm’s-length of possibility that can not be done, when a man must.