Quotes by : Rumer Godden

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

Nabir came out to drive the children away, but she stopped him. "I like to be friendly she said." "But....

...and as she stood on the Ashford platform waiting for the small train to come in, she seemed already....

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

A garden isn't meant to be useful. It's for joy.

The human heartIs unknowable.But in my birthplaceThe flowers still smellThe same as always.

In good company your thoughts run, in solitude your thought is still; it goes deeper and makes for itself....

For a dyed-in-the-wool author nothing is as dead as a book once it is written ... she is rather like....

My nation, as all nations, is becoming a land without peace, without thought, without mind, Madam Abbess.....

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