9 Quotes by Salena Godden

They say that it is always poets that die in wars, and I never got over a sense of being in the trenches.

Human colour is the colour I’m truly interested in, the colour of your humanity. May the size of your heart and the depth of your soul be your currency. Welcome aboard my Good Ship. Let us sail to the colourful island of mixed identity."SHADE" - Salena Godden

You cannot go poking skeletons in the closet without making maggots wriggle." - Springfield Road

But someone once told me, you cannot climb a well from the middle, you must fall right to the bottom. Once you are there, in the cold, alone and ankle deep in slime, you’ll look up and you’ll get a real sense of the dark and the work involved to climb towards the light, the truth.

My Dear, These are the memories of my life as a child. This is the story of the world before I was here, the universe I was born into, that I came to love before I had to grow up, find rent and suffer hangovers. This is the story of how I became this overgrown adult with crooked teeth and scars. - Springfield Road

You cannot go poking skeletons in the closet without making maggots wriggle.” – Springfield Road.

Living is not as easy as they all make it seem. It is not as simple as breathe in and breathe out. It is not as simple as sleep, eat, work, repeat, sleep, eat, work, repeat. It is not as easy as they all make it look. You made it to today. You made it this far, well done you, and thank you. Thank you. Thank yourself. Thank you.

Spoiler Alert: We all die in the end.

That’s the stuff, darling, the love. Love, the love, the love. LOVE. That’s what living was always about.