Necessary Secrets Quotes

“If I had my wilderness, nature could be my lover. What can I do in the paved streets for my thirsty roots? I waste time. I encourage fools. I slip the vital hours into penny slot machines -- to pass time, to start my stuck wheels only love can oil.”
― Elizabeth Smart, Necessary Secrets: The Journals of Elizabeth Smart

“The temperament of a dandelion or cosmic preservation. Where does wonder begin?”
― Elizabeth Smart, Necessary Secrets: The Journals of Elizabeth Smart

“Work is the only only only remedy for life: for happiness, for interest, for stability, for security. Hard, willed work. Oh work!”
― Elizabeth Smart, Necessary Secrets: The Journals of Elizabeth Smart

“April 19
And now it is spring. Birds are singing. Wistful notes and jubilant. And bare streets and no need for coats, and skipping ropes and bicycles and a thin new moon.”
― Elizabeth Smart, Necessary Secrets: The Journals of Elizabeth Smart

“Man is, without doubt, the defacer, the destroyer. But spending at least the last three years in trying to understand the enemy has almost seduced me to his side.”
― Elizabeth Smart, Necessary Secrets: The Journals of Elizabeth Smart