All Janet Frame Quotes
- I have always disliked the morning, it is too responsible a time, with the daylight demanding that it be 'faced' and (usually when I wake… Always Disliked
- Listening to her, one experienced a deep uneasiness as of having avoided an urgent responsibility, like someone who, walking at night along the banks of… All
- The idea was to have a basin inverted on his head and his hair cut to the shape of it. Skill and money were not… Adaptable
- I must go down to the seas again to find where I buried the hatchet with Yesterday. Buried
- He sees the land of meaning, and one path to it, and the so-called “normal” people traveling swiftly and in comfort to the land; he… Arrive
- There is no past or future. Using tenses to divide time is like making chalk marks on water. Chalk
- Much of living is an attempt to preserve oneself by annexing and occupying others. Annexing
- I had a cousin once who lived in your dictionary, inside the binding, and there was a tiny hole which he used for a door,… Asleep
- People dread silence because it is transparent; like clear water, which reveals every obstacle—the used, the dead, the drowned, silence reveals the cast-off words and… Cast
- She grew more and more silent about what really mattered. She curled inside herself like one of those black chimney brushes, the little shellfish you… Beach
- For your own good is a persuasive argument that will eventually make a man agree to his own destruction. Agree
- For in spite of the snapdragons and the duty millers and the cherry blossoms, it was always winter. Always Winter
- They meant abnormal. Divisions of the kind were fashionable at that time, and it was so easy to stifle one's need to help by deciding… Abnormal