In health, in the bustle of living, it was easy to believe in heaven and a life to come. But when the blow fell, and those you loved passed into the great Silence, where you could not get at them,… — Henry Handel Richardson Copy Share Image
In health, in the bustle of living, it was easy to believe in heaven and a life to come. But when the blow fell,… — Henry Handel Richardson Copy Share Image
To wake in the night: be wide awake in an instant, with all your faculties on edge: to wake, and be under compulsion to set in, night for night, at the same point, knowing from grim experience, that the demons awaiting you have each to be grappled with in turn, no single one of them left unthrown, before you can… — Henry Handel Richardson Copy Share
The truth that could be extracted from words was such a fluctuating, relative truth. — Henry Handel Richardson Copy Share Image
“The most sensitive,the most delicate of instruments is the mind of a little child ” — Henry Handel Richardson Copy Share Image
That most sensitive, most delicate of instruments -- the mind of a little child! — Henry Handel Richardson Copy Share Image
Oh! mothers aren't fair - I mean it's not fair of nature to weigh us down with them and yet expect us to be… — Henry Handel Richardson Copy Share Image
There are enough women to do the childbearing and the childrearing. I know of none who can write my books. — Henry Handel Richardson Copy Share Image
