The Goddess Abides Quotes

“It is sweet to be loved, but to be able to love is to possess the life force. I love you. Therefore I am strong. Whatever my age, I am sustained by my own power to love.”
― Pearl S. Buck, The Goddess Abides

“You are an artist,” she said. “But then all scientists are artists, my father used to say. You think like an artist, at any rate, and I can see that you want what you create to be a work of art.”
― Pearl S. Buck, The Goddess Abides: A Novel

“Books, for example—she had thought of books as diversion and amusement. Now she knew they were communication between minds, her own and others, living and dead. Such communication was the source of learning and she had a thirst for learning,”
― Pearl S. Buck, The Goddess Abides: A Novel