Awake Quote by Mary Webb

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

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

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

Saddle your dreams before you ride em.

— Mary Webb

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

“I'd laboured over it a long while, and labour brings a thing near the heart's core.”

— Mary Webb

It made me gladsome to be getting some education, it being like a big window opening.

— Mary Webb

The more anybody wants a thing, the more they do think others want it.

— Mary Webb

“[...]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

Autumn is full of leave-taking.

— Mary Webb

“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

Green is the fresh emblem of well founded hopes. In blue the spirit can wander, but in green it can rest.

— Mary Webb