Parke Godwin Quotes

#1. The day comes when love means something beyond a reflection of ourselves, when there is more behind than ahead and the house of mind is haunted in every chamber with old songs, old ghosts, old hopes.

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#2. I can't think of it now. It costs too much.

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#3. See that day as I remember it. A day in June, River Severn rolling to the sea, diamonded with sunlight, gulls gliding over the quays on a mild breeze that lifted the Red Dragon standard over Camelot. A quiet enough day for the end of my world.

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#4. Love and hell are alike in that respect; they are what you bring to them. The script is yours; only the props are furnished.

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#5. And youth, though they see every day the cradle and grave shaped so alike, never believe death will happen to them. I told you it was a comedy.

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#6. Neither of us deserves tomorrow.

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#7. Where do the strong go to be weak?

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#8. You go through it like a dark room, you sweat, you fear, the fear passes, you come out of it and utter nothing but meaningless words about what you saw or felt.

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#9. Part of what we are is whom we've loved.

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#10. I know why men lose sight of the face of God: because it is so close.

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#11. So we survive, it is the world.

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#12. Lovers have a language that can be lost
how to speak, how to touch, when to try.

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#13. A while ago in real-time you saw the eagles. And you wished.

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#14. Between blow and pain, there is that instant of numbness, an unreal moment ...

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#15. Tomorrow belongs to those who can learn. For those who can't, there's only yesterday.

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#16. I am aged with a sickness of the mind.

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#17. Perhaps a moment comes when must is to tired to fight and want breaks free to cry I am just once before the sun goes down.

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#18. The soft, fluttering cry of a barn owl rose over the churchyard. Silent men flowed out of the dark.

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#19. For one instant, I saw the stars close enough to touch. Closer than that, part of me. Are they really so far or just that we never reach for them?

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#20. We play very dangerous games with life and no one knows our rules.

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