Rumer Godden

“In good company your thoughts run, in solitude your thought is still; it goes deeper and makes for itself a deeper groove,…

— Rumer Godden

in California I began to think that, except on the beaches, no-one had the use of their legs.

— Rumer Godden

Of course one never knows in draft if it's going to turn out, even with my age and experience.

— Rumer Godden

You can be a nuisance to your family. You mustn't be a nuisance to your friends.

— Rumer Godden

“Towards four o'clock the dew fell, and she smelled a gust of sweetness from the roses and a paleness showed in the…

— Rumer Godden

It's only by being obstinate that anything is got, or done.

— Rumer Godden

“My nation, as all nations, is becoming a land without peace, without thought, without mind, Madam Abbess. We are suffocating our spirits…

— Rumer Godden

Once you have felt the Indian dust, you will never be free of it.

— Rumer Godden

“Every piece of writing... starts from what I call a grit... a sight or sound, a sentence or a happening that does…

— Rumer Godden

If books were Persian carpets, one would not look only at the outer side. because it is the stitch that makes a…

— Rumer Godden

With everything that happens to you, with everyone you meet who is important to you, you either die a little or are…

— Rumer Godden

As one gets older being sad and miserable can become a bit of a habit. To counteract this, she suggests making a…

— Rumer Godden

The best would be to have friends who came and went away; but if I had to choose between their never coming…

— Rumer Godden

“Harriet told her, 'Captain John was so brave. He stayed there in the battle until his leg was shot off.' Victoria's brown…

— Rumer Godden

“The human heart Is unknowable. But in my birthplace The flowers still smell The same as always.”

— Rumer Godden

“On and off, all that hot French August, we made ourselves ill from eating the greengages. Joss and I felt guilty; we…

— Rumer Godden

When you learn to read you will be born again...and you will never be quite so alone again.

— Rumer Godden

People don't know the consolations of being unsuccessful ... If I had been successful I should have had no peace or time.

— Rumer Godden

“One of the good things about a Catholic church is that it isn't respectable," she had told Richard. "You can find anyone…

— Rumer Godden

Memory is the only friend of grief.

— Rumer Godden

“Harriet was silent, thinking, and then she said, "It is too hard to be a person. You don't only have to go…

— Rumer Godden

Most grown people are like icebergs, three-tenths showing, seven-tenths submerged - that is why a collision with one of them is unexpectedly…

— Rumer Godden

“Sometimes,' she said, remembering that morning, 'I write poems that are taller than I am”

— Rumer Godden

“Funny,' said Harriet to herself. 'The world goes on turning, and it has all these troubles in it.”

— Rumer Godden

I loved Mr. Darcy far more than any of my own husbands.

— Rumer Godden