Rumer Godden Quotes

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

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

Rumer Godden

She made a creche outside the Inn. The natives thought it was wonderful, and Sister Honey was gratified by their numbers.Why have the devils with wings come to mock at the poor baby?' asked the childr...

She made a creche outside the Inn. The natives thought it was wonderful, and Sister Honey was gratified by their numbers.Why have the devils with wings come to mock at the poor baby?' asked the childr...

Rumer Godden

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About Author

Margaret Rumer Godden (10 December 1907 – 8 November 1998) was an English author of more than 60 fiction and non-fiction books. Nine of her works have been made into films, most notably Black Narcissus in 1947 and The River in 1951.
A few of her works were co-written with her elder sister, novelist Jon Godden, including Two Under the Indian Sun, a memoir of the Goddens' childhood in a region of India now part of Bangladesh.

Rumer Godden Quotes

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

She made a creche outside the Inn. The natives thought it was wonderful, and Sister Honey was gratified by their numbers.Why have the devils with wings come to mock at the poor baby?' asked the childr...

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It is an anxious, sometimes a dangerous thing to be a doll. Dolls cannot choose; they can only be chosen; they cannot 'do'; they can only be done by.

One of the good things about a Catholic church is that it isn't respectable, she had told Richard. You can find anyone in it, from duchesses to whores, from tramps to kings.

I know now it is children who accept life; grown people cover it up and pretend it is different with drinks.

Perhaps it was the pulling up of her stakes, or claims, to her private loves, renouncing them, that had made room for these people in a kind of universal love, without any claims.

You have to be very strong to live close to God or a mountain, or you'll turn a little mad.

And you needn’t worry about being useful,’ said Dame Ursula. ‘When you have become God’s in the measure He wants, He, Himself, will know how to bestow you on others.’ She was quoting St Basil. Then he...

Why do religions have edges? asked Teresa.... God is here, said the printed text on the wall. Yes, said Sophie. But, she asked, isn't He everywhere? Then why do they make Him little? And she thought o...

I wish I knew when I was going to die,' ninety-six-year-old Dame Frances Anne often said, 'I wish I knew.' 'Why, Dame?''Then I should know what to read next.

The greengages had a pale blue bloom, especially in the shade, but in the sun the flesh showed amber through the clear green skin; if it were cracked the juice was doubly warm and sweet.

My nation, as all nations, is becoming a land without peace, without thought, without mind, Madam Abbess. We are suffocating our spirits in commercial and material things. This is not envy, said Mr. K...

I think there are only two ways to live in this place,’ said Sister Philippa, ‘you must either live like Mr Dean or like the Sunnyasi; either ignore it completely or give yourself up to it.

Now you gird yourself and take yourself where you want to go … but one day another will gird you and take you where you do not want to go.

To wake for the first time in a new place can be like another birth.

When one came to know them it was surprising how childish grown people could be.

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

None of us should marry, unless we love a man so much we would go through hell for him, which we shall probably have to do.

On and off, all that hot French August, we made ourselves ill from eating the greengages. Joss and I felt guilty; we were still at the age when we thought being greedy was a childish fault and this ga...

For a dyed-in-the-wool author nothing is as dead as a book once it is written ... she is rather like a cat whose kittens have grown up. While they were a-growing she was passionately interested in the...