A Fugue in Time Quotes

“Most houses don’t keep the same inhabitants for generations, especially not in towns. The life in them changes and ebbs and flows; the rooms change; they are not usually, for as long as this, one person’s room. Life does not stay in them as life has stayed in this.”
― Rumer Godden, Take Three Tenses: A Fugue in Time

“In me you exist,' says the house.”
― Rumer Godden, Take Three Tenses: A Fugue in Time

“Grown-up people do not say what is true, but what they hope is true.”
― Rumer Godden, Take Three Tenses: A Fugue in Time

“Every person needs to be needed, but being needed takes away from thoughts of yourself. This may sound selfish to your ears, but I do not think it is so. I know I am unable to be needed like others are. I know that my inner world would be jealous.”
― Rumer Godden, Take Three Tenses: A Fugue in Time