“[...]we are all as full of echoes as a rocky wood--echoes of the past, reflex echoes of the future, and echoes of… — Mary Webb Copy Share Image
“He was ever a strong man, which is almost the same, times, as to say a man with little time for kindness.… — Mary Webb Copy Share Image
Love unspoken is the most tremendous force in the world. One is amazed at the way in which people waste their time… — Mary Webb Copy Share Image
“The past is only the present become invisible and mute; its memoried glances and its murmurs are infinitely precious.” — Mary Webb Copy Share Image
“That vivid present of theirs, how faint it grows! The past is only the present become invisible and mute, and because it… — Mary Webb Copy Share Image
The past is only the present become invisible and mute; and because it is invisible and mute, its memorized glances and its… — Mary Webb Copy Share Image
Every time I meet a tree, if I am truly awake, I stand in awe before it. I listen to its voice,… — Mary Webb Copy Share Image
There is usually no dreamer so unworldly as the anthologist. He wanders in a vast garden, lost in wonder, unable to decide often between… — Mary Webb Copy Share Image
There is surely no more unselfish person than the anthologist. For while all we others are striving to ensure our own immortality with eagerness,… — Mary Webb Copy Share Image
But when you dwell in a house you mislike, you will look out of a window a deal more than those that are content… — Mary Webb Copy Share Image
For the world is founded and built up on death, and the reality of death is neither to be questioned nor feared. Death is… — Mary Webb Copy Share Image
“I'd laboured over it a long while, and labour brings a thing near the heart's core.” — Mary Webb Copy Share Image
It made me gladsome to be getting some education, it being like a big window opening. — Mary Webb Copy Share Image
“[...]we are all as full of echoes as a rocky wood--echoes of the past, reflex echoes of the future, and echoes of the soil… — Mary Webb Copy Share Image
“I've thought since that when folk grumble about this and that and be not happy, it is not the fault of creation, that is… — Mary Webb Copy Share Image
Green is the fresh emblem of well founded hopes. In blue the spirit can wander, but in green it can rest. — Mary Webb Copy Share Image
