Rumer Godden Quotations

cleverness is a disease.

I don't know if I believe in God, but I know I believe in the devil. I have met him.

Wanting is the beginning of getting.

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

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

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

Every time a child, any child, is born, it is new - and different; that is the wonder.

The stitch of a book is its words.

If books were Persian carpets, one would not look only at the outer side. because it is the stitch that makes a carpet wear, gives it its life and bloom.

Memory is the only friend of grief.