176 Quotes by Katherine Anne Porter

I will never again attempt to tell any young person what to do – the really gifted don’t need advice and the others can’t take it.

The thought of him was a smoky cloud from hell that moved and crept in her head.

No more war, no more plague, only the dazed silence that follows the ceasing of the heavy guns; noiseless houses with the shades drawn, empty streets, the dead cold light of tomorrow. Now there would be time for everything.

The past is never where you think you left it: you are not the same person you were yesterday – oh.

He really did look, Miranda thought, like a fine healthy apple this morning.