Houselands Quotes & Sayings

My mind was not that of a conqueror, but that of a cow that spends its life chewing contentedly in the meadow of invoices, waiting for the train of eternal grace to pass by. How good it felt to exist without pride of ambition. To live in hibernation. — Amelie Nothomb

The Houselands. Graveyard to the ones
who got locked out. A chill ran up London's spine. What the hell
were they doing? — Anna Silver

All this is true and certain. But what I do not know is this: which home welcomed him, at the end. Whichever it was - the celestial English heaven of seraphim, cherubim and ophanim, or Kietan's warm and fertile place away in the southwest, I believe that his song was powerful enough for Joel to hear and to follow him there. — Geraldine Brooks

I work continuously within the shadow of failure. For every novel that makes it to my publisher's desk, there are at least five or six that died on the way. And even with the ones I do finish, I think of all the ways they might have been better. — Gail Godwin

Maybe there is some solace to be derived in that: bacchanal or funeral, after enough time, the detritus looks the same. — David Rakoff

God is able to make all grace abound toward you that you alway having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work — Anthony B. Powell