Postcard Quotes

“The world before us is a postcard, and I imagine the story we are writing on it.”
― Mary E. Pearson, The Miles Between

“Your memory creates postcard images, but it doesn't really comprehend the world at all. That's why a landscape is so affected by the mood of the person looking at it. In it a person sees his own inner, transitory moments. Wherever he looks, he sees nothing but himself.”
― Olga Tokarczuk, House of Day, House of Night

“You rarely know, in the moment, when it's the last time you'll do something. Most of the time, the whole thing just sneaks away in the night, never to be seen or heard from again, not even sending back so much as a postcard to say hello.”
― Michelle Cuevas, Beyond the Laughing Sky

“The sky is postcard dreamy now, the clouds less full of rain, the sun a little stronger every day.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces

“Wherever you travel to, I would love to receive a beautiful postcard.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

“The pictures are postcard reproductions of Old Masters. She has lots of metal animals about an inch long, little wooden shoes, painted boxes only big enough to hold stamps.”
― Dodie Smith

“Not for the first time in the history of the universe, someone for whom communication normally came as effortlessly as a dream was stuck for inspiration when faced with a few lines on the back of a card.”
― Terry Pratchett, Witches Abroad

“Where you travel to, I would love to receive a beautiful postcard.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

“I need to buy some postcards to send to Mom and Dad,' said Ian, heading up the steas to the Captain's Quill Bookshop. 'I also want to send some funny ones to Jackson and some of my other friends.'

'I'll get one for my mom,' said Zoe.

But as she sorted through the postcards, she remembered her mom was travling all summer without a fixed address, and email was a no-go because Granddad didn't own a computer. She didn't have the addresses of any of her friends with her, either-not that she had many friends.”
― Christine Brodien-Jones, The Glass Puzzle

“Zoe's mom liked to send silly postcards that made her laugh, but they usually dwindled as the summer wore on.”
― Christine Brodien-Jones, The Glass Puzzle

“I can't but mention my dearest one that I have been thinking of you oh so much today and longing in my heart so much for the happy blissful and peaceful time which I hope in God's providence will be our portion next year. (Message in Pitman Shorthand from Percy, 2 September 1914)”
― Kathryn Baird, Fifty Mysterious Postcards: Pitman Shorthand Messages from the Golden Age of the Postcard