Margaret Craven Quotes

#1. When he had first come to the village,it was the future that loomed huge.So much to plan.So much to learn. Then it was the present that had consumed him-each day with all its chores and never enough hours to do them.

Margaret Craven

#2. Already the rain had become an element of life like the air Mark breathed, and when it stopped, he missed it somehow, and found himself listening for the drip, drip, drip that seemed now a necessary and comforting component of his life.

Margaret Craven

#3. For me it has always been easier here, where only the fundamentals count, to learn what every man must learn in this world."
"And that, my lord?"
"Enough of the meaning of life to be ready to die.

Margaret Craven

#4. Here every bird and fish knew its course. Every tree had its own place upon this earth. Only man had lost his way.

Margaret Craven

#5. He watched their faces, and he knew each meant desperately what she said because they loved each other, and deep inside surely each knew the words were false, that the true words were those unspoken.

Margaret Craven

#6. If you grow up where a snow mountain lifts its proud crown on the home horizon, in some strange way it becomes a member of the family.

Margaret Craven

#7. There is a strange depression that hangs over every little town that is no longer in the mainstream of life.

Margaret Craven

#8. Past the village flowed the river, like time, like life itself, waiting for the swimmer to come again on his way to the climax of his adventurous life, and to the end for which he had been made.

Margaret Craven

#9. How must he prove himself? What was it they wished to know of him? And what did he know of himself here where loneliness was an unavoidable element of life, and a man must rely solely on himself?

Margaret Craven

#10. There was nothing but a lonely magnificence of sea and islands

Margaret Craven