The White Deer Quotes

“She has a memory of trees and fields and nothing more.”
― James Thurber, The White Deer

“There was a mist of moss to ride through and a storm of glass.”
― James Thurber, The White Deer

“The old man moaned and maundered, murmured, muttered, mumbled odds of this and ends of that, bits and pieces, shreds and edges, full of ifs and whens and theres and thens, amounting in the end and all to six times less than nothing.”
― James Thurber, The White Deer

“If you should walk and wind and wander far enough on one of those afternoons in April when smoke goes down instead of up, and nearby things sound far away and far things near, you are more than likely to come at last to the enchanted forest that lies between the Moonstone Mines and Centaurs Mountain. You'll know the woods when you are still a long way off by virtue of a fragrance you can never quite forget and never quite remember.”
― James Thurber, The White Deer

“Against the may, the could be, and the should, folly 'tis to balance doubt or hope.”
― James Thurber, The White Deer

“This heavish sweety fragrance,’ Thag muttered to himself, ‘that rises, or that roses, isn’t fit for human noses, and it tricks the minds of men. Three times two is eight,’ he said, ‘and one is ten.”
― James Thurber, The White Deer

“I won't be listed and labeled or tabbed and tagged," said Clode. "If I want a book, I'll get a book.”
― James Thurber, The White Deer