“the remembrance of them is grievous unto us; the burden of them is intolerable.” — Gail Godwin Copy Share Image
“If someone had really done you an ill turn and later came to you and said, “I am truly sorry,” would that mean as much to you as “the burden of it has been intolerable to me”?” — Gail Godwin Copy Share Image
“I contemplated how I was going to get through the rest of the day and felt the onset of a terror I thought I… — Gail Godwin Copy Share Image
“People commit thousands of small suicides every day that go unnoticed” — Gail Godwin Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of people. One kind, you can just tell by looking at them at what point they congealed into their final… — Gail Godwin Copy Share Image
None of us suddenly becomes something overnight. The preparations have been in the making for lifetime. — Gail Godwin Copy Share Image
The best antidote I have found is to yearn for something. As long as you yearn, you can't congeal: There is a forward motion… — Gail Godwin Copy Share Image
The characters that I create are parts of myself and I send them on little missions to find out what I don’t know yet. — Gail Godwin Copy Share Image
During the act of writing I have told myself something that I didn't know I knew. — Gail Godwin Copy Share Image
“Yes, if you believed in words, if you lived by words, you had better be careful which words you say and how you say… — Gail Godwin Copy Share Image
I'm always aware that I risk being taken for a neurasthenic prima donna when I explain to someone who wants 'just a little' of… — Gail Godwin Copy Share Image
I believe that with enough practice and good faith, you can learn to recognize when the work is achieved. — Gail Godwin Copy Share Image
If there is such a thing as sin in this world, I think it must be shutting oneself up against hope. — Gail Godwin Copy Share Image
