Springfield Road Quotes

“You cannot go poking skeletons in the closet without making maggots wriggle." - Springfield Road”
― Salena Godden, Springfield Road

“They say that it is always poets that die in wars, and I never got over a sense of being in the trenches.”
― Salena Godden, Springfield Road

“But someone once told me, you cannot climb a well from the middle, you must fall right to the bottom. Once you are there, in the cold, alone and ankle deep in slime, you’ll look up and you’ll get a real sense of the dark and the work involved to climb towards the light, the truth.”
― Salena Godden, Springfield Road

“My Dear,
These are the memories of my life as a child. This is the story of the world before I was here, the universe I was born into, that I came to love before I had to grow up, find rent and suffer hangovers. This is the story of how I became this overgrown adult with crooked teeth and scars. - Springfield Road”
― Salena Godden, Springfield Road