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With everything that happens to you, with everyone you meet who is important to you, you either die a little or are born.
— Rumer Godden
They say that it is always poets that die in wars, and I never got over a sense of being in the trenches.
— Salena Godden
Of course one never knows in draft if it's going to turn out, even with my age and experience.
— Rumer Godden
Drink very good tea out of a thin Wocester cup of colour between apricot and pink ...
— Rumer Godden
The stitch of a book is its words.
— Rumer Godden
The human heartIs unknowable.
But in my birthplace
The flowers still smell
The same as always. — Rumer Godden
Is it easier to be than to do?
— Rumer Godden
Sometimes,' she said, remembering that morning, 'I write poems that are taller than I am
— Rumer Godden
So many grown-up people seem to be nothing very much.
— Rumer Godden
You have to be very strong to live close to God or a mountain, or you'll turn a little mad.
— Rumer Godden
I loved Mr. Darcy far more than any of my own husbands.
— Rumer Godden
Eliot always said, "I'm sorry. I had to do that." If you are all right really, really all right, you don't do things that are sorry.
— Rumer Godden
At Christmas, tea is compulsory. Relatives are optional.
— Robert Godden
A garden isn't meant to be useful. It's for joy.Rumer Godden found in Power of Simple Living by Ellyn Sanna — Rumer Godden
You cannot go poking skeletons in the closet without making maggots wriggle." - Springfield Road
— Salena Godden
remember that people need only be told as much of the truth as they are entitled to know,
— Rumer Godden
If you love the wrong people it's still love, isn't it, no matter what kind of love ...
— Rumer Godden
We would rather not play with you," said Anne. "Because you're a little rotter," said Tom. — Rumer Godden
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.
— Rumer Godden
In California I began to think that, except on the beaches, no-one had the use of their legs.
— Rumer Godden
It's only by being obstinate that anything is got, or done.
— Rumer Godden
This Journey is in reverse, my father is the stop I missed, he is the station I dreamt of when I was sleeping
— Salena Godden
Memory is the only friend of grief.
— Rumer Godden
He had always disliked what he could easily have; he had a passion for the untouched.
— Rumer Godden
To me and my kind life itself is a story and we have to tell it in stories - that is the way it falls.
— Rumer Godden
Every time a child, any child, is born, it is new - and different; that is the wonder.
— Rumer Godden
Funny,' said Harriet to herself. 'The world goes on turning, and it has all these troubles in it.
— Rumer Godden
I know now it is children who accept life; grown people cover it up and pretend it is different with drinks.
— 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
Cleverness is a disease.
— Rumer Godden
When you learn to read you will be born again ... and you will never be quite so alone again.
— Rumer Godden
Wanting is the beginning of getting.
— Rumer Godden