91 Quotes by Rumer Godden

When you learn to read you will be born again...and you will never be quite so alone again.

She did not know that males do not care to be circumvented, however wonderfully, by their females.

I have come to believe that nothing is ever wasted; out of mistakes or through mistakes, something quite worthwhile can come, in my case the see of another novel.

When one came to know them it was surprising how childish grown people could be.

It is an anxious, sometimes a dangerous thing to be a doll. Dolls cannot choose; they can only be chosen; they cannot 'do'; they can only be done by.

That was true, and dirt, earth, has power, an astonishing power of life, of creating and sweetening; it can take anything, a body, an old tin, decay, rust, corruption, filth, and turn it into itself, and slowly make it life, green blades of grass and weeds.

She could not take the words back—words never will come back—and she looked round for something she could do.

I know now it is children who accept life; grown people cover it up and pretend it is different with drinks.

My nation, as all nations, is becoming a land without peace, without thought, without mind, Madam Abbess. We are suffocating our spirits in commercial and material things. This is not envy," said Mr. Konishi earnestly. "I am a rich man, with much business, so I have succeeded in all these things, but I know that they are empty.