Godbody Quotes

“This is the answer!
The answer is not in getting and keeping, but in getting and giving.
The answer is not in saving and preserving, but in growing and changing.
The answer is not in making things stop, but in making things go.
The answer is not in covering and hiding, but in touching and sharing.
The answer is not in thinking, but in feeling.
The answer is not in death, but love.
Not death, but life.
Not death!”
― Theodore Sturgeon, Godbody

“Things grow for me in the garden, little green promises that, in good time, are kept: I will give you tomatoes, I promise you corn. People do not always keep their promises, even when you tend their soil.”
― Theodore Sturgeon, Godbody

“Had I been screaming, screaming, in some way? I with my life so separate and well-ordered in the company of my green things and my sky and the animals of the hillside? I shouted - it was a demand - I shouted and shook him: "Godbody!" And as usual he understood me perfectly: 'You was lonesome,' he said.”
― Theodore Sturgeon, Godbody

“Was a bird for about an hour,” he said. “Tell you something about birds. People go around all the time sayin’, ‘Am I a man? Am I a woman, a real woman?’ Lookin’ at what they’ve done, wonderin’ if that’s what a man would do. Now, birds: they just birds. The one thing they never do is say, ‘Am I a bird?”
― Theodore Sturgeon, Godbody

“Mark Twain said that the difference between the right word and almost the right word was the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.”
― Theodore Sturgeon, Godbody