"There is an Indian proverb that says that everyone is a house with four rooms, a physical, a mental, an emtional, and a spiritual . Most of us tend to live in one room most of the time but unless we go into every room every day, even if only to keep it aired, we are not a complete person."
— Rumer Godden

"It is an anxious, sometimes a dangerous thing to be a doll. Dolls cannot choose; they can only be chosen; they cannot 'do'; they can only be done by."
— Rumer Godden (The Dolls' House)

"She made a creche outside the Inn. The natives thought it was wonderful, and Sister Honey was gratified by their numbers.
'Why have the devils with wings come to mock at the poor baby?' asked the children, pointing to the angels.
'The baby is the Number One Lord Jesus Christ,' Ayah told them.
'But he hasn't any clothes on! Aren't they going to give Him anything? Not a little red robe? Not a bit of melted butter?'
'This is His Mother,' said Ayah, showing them the little porcelain Virgin in blue and white and pink. 'He is her child.'
'That isn't true,' said the women, measuring the baby with their eyes. 'He's too big to be possible. Probably He's a dragon, an evil spirit in the shape of a child, and presently He'll eat up the woman.'"
— Rumer Godden