The Golden Age Quotes

“I have to find myself
A place where I can breathe.
That's where poetry lives
In the oldest part of us.”
― Joan London, The Golden Age

“She limped, unaided around the house, like a bird with its wing broken. Tame, because it couldn’t fly away. All her time was taken up with managing herself, working out new ways to do things. Being a different person in the world.”
― Joan London, The Golden Age

“Something had been taken away from him in the war, against his will, and he would never be the same. Years in labour camps, in mountains, in salt mines: only solitude was natural to him now. Some part of him was terminally tired. He was beyond intimacy. The pretence at normality, the weight of the past, the unreality of the days here had exhausted him.”
― Joan London, The Golden Age

“You are the first inhabitant
I meet
In this new country.”
― Joan London, The Golden Age

“You are the light that swirls around me,
Darkness lies over the desert.”
― Joan London, The Golden Age

“city, but still it lingered, like a tune or an aroma, set in motion whenever”
― Joan London, The Golden Age

“the large black birds swirling and dispersing over”
― Joan London, The Golden Age

“And in this matter, Gold, he’d said, rolling his eyes towards Frank, we have had an early advantage.”
― Joan London, The Golden Age

“Once you work the soil, you belong to it.
For so long now he had passed over the surface of the earth like wind over a desert, like shifting sand.”
― Joan London, The Golden Age

“All those I live with are unseen.”
― Joan London, The Golden Age

“You are going to get strong! You are going to walk!"
"Mama, please!"
"You want to know why? They take the weak ones first."
Everything was always about the war.”
― Joan London, The Golden Age

“Just when I thought
I'd never find you
You appear.”
― Joan London, The Golden Age

“Your bed was empty today
When I looked for you
Why?”
― Joan London, The Golden Age