The Callender Papers Quotes

“You must not let yourself become too respectable. Keep yourself a little wild. What is life for, if not for the living of it?”
― Cynthia Voigt, The Callender Papers

“People can be unimaginably foolish...and they can be unimaginably grand, at times.”
― Cynthia Voigt, The Callender Papers

“ I felt that the world itself had changed and that it would never be steady under my feet again. I felt I understood nothing of people and had no way to learn. I felt fear.
Until you have felt fear, you cannot imagine it. Once you have really felt it, you know that all your earlier nervousness was but a pale shadow.”
― Cynthia Voigt, The Callender Papers

“Men, and women too, are unpredictable creatures. You have seen little of this. I wonder now if your innocence is enough protection for you.”
― Cynthia Voigt, The Callender Papers

“When a daring idea first crosses one's mind, if it is to be realized in the future it is often appealing. Then, as the time for its execution comes nearer, one begins to dread that which had once been anticipated. ”
― Cynthia Voigt, The Callender Papers

“When a woman chooses to marry, she puts her life into his hands. When she chooses not to marry, she must be ready to put her life into her own hands. These quarrels are petty and tiresome, I grant you that, but there is something to be learned in them. They have a use.”
― Cynthia Voigt, The Callender Papers