Beloved Exile Quotes

“I’ve learned and unlearned all my life; it’s helped me to survive. There are no constants, nothing is immutable, only random circumstance from which our experience builds a coherent arc of life. And for that arc you have only to be truly done with one thing before moving to another. There’s an art in letting go.”
― Parke Godwin, Beloved Exile

“Between blow and pain, there is that instant of numbness, an unreal moment...”
― Parke Godwin, Beloved Exile

“...for one instant, I saw the stars close enough to touch. Closer than that, part of me. Are they really so far or just that we never reach for them?”
― Parke Godwin, Beloved Exile

“Tomorrow belongs to those who can learn. For those who can’t, there’s only yesterday.”
― Parke Godwin, Beloved Exile

“See that day as I remember it. A day in June, River Severn rolling to the sea, diamonded with sunlight, gulls gliding over the quays on a mild breeze that lifted the Red Dragon standard over Camelot. A quiet enough day for the end of my world.”
― Parke Godwin, Beloved Exile

“...hear the language, this English, double-jointed as Bedivere's limbs. It only sounds awkward. In its ability to join one concept to another as with pegs, its dependent clauses, figures of speech and cadenced alliteration, a man can say one thing five ways and yet imply a sixth; can change meaning with an inflection, a pause or a deliberate misuse of a word, can mock, scorn and flay an opponent without uttering one overt insult.”
― Parke Godwin, Beloved Exile

“Lovers have a language that can be lost--how to speak, how to touch, when to try.”
― Parke Godwin, Beloved Exile