Rumer Godden Quote

It is strange and cold. I can feel it through the box said Miss Flower and she cried, No one will understand us or know what we want. Oh no one will understand us again!But Miss Happiness was more hopeful and more brave. I think they will,she said.How will they?Because there will be some little girl who is clever and kind.Will there be? said Miss Flower longingly.Yes.Why will there be?Because there always has been, said Miss Happiness.

Rumer Godden

It is strange and cold. I can feel it through the box said Miss Flower and she cried, No one will understand us or know what we want. Oh no one will understand us again!But Miss Happiness was more hopeful and more brave. I think they will,she said.How will they?Because there will be some little girl who is clever and kind.Will there be? said Miss Flower longingly.Yes.Why will there be?Because there always has been, said Miss Happiness.

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About Rumer Godden

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.