Now in November
Josephine Winslow Johnson
Top 10 Best Quotes
“The earth was overwhelmed with beauty and indifferent to it, and I went with a heart ready to crack for its unbearable loveliness.”
“What is sanity, after all, except the control of madness?”
“Lord make me satisfied with small things. Make me content to live on the outside of life. God make me love the rind!”
“... love and fear increase together with a precision almost mathematical: the greater the love is then the greater the fear is.”
“I like to pretend that the years alter and revalue, but begin to see that time does nothing but enlarge without mutation. You have a chance here--more than a chance, it is thrust upon you--to be alone and still. To look backward and forward and see with clarity. To see the years behind, the essential loneliness, and the likeness of one year to the next. The awful order of cause and effect. Root leading to stem and inevitable growth, and the same sap moving through tissue of different years, marked like the branches with inescapable scars of growth.”
“I cannot believe this is the end. Nor can I believe that death is more than the blindness of those living. And if this is only the consolation of a heart in its necessity, or that easy faith born of despair, it does not matter, since it gives us courage somehow to face the mornings. Which is as much as the heart can ask at times.”
“There must be some reason, I thought, why we should go on year after year, with this lump of debt, scrailing earth down to stone, giving so much and with no return. There must be some reason why I was made quiet and homely and slow, and then given this stone of love to mumble.”
“She knew that nothing was ever as overwhelming or final as he seemed to think - that if he would wait, instead of shouting, there'd be less to shout over in the end.”
“But only in mad people fear goes on constant night and day, wearing one ditch in the mind that all thoughts must travel in.”
“What is sanity after all except the control of madness?”
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Book Keywords:
patience, fear, now-in-november, madness, overreaction
