This Proud Heart Quotes

“But no, it was not the small single moment which had killed him. It was the anger of all his life here in this house which he himself had built and lived in and hated all his years.”
― Pearl S. Buck, This Proud Heart: A Novel

“les gens se sentent seuls quand ils rêvent .”
― Pearl S. Buck, This Proud Heart

“was not death for which she grieved, but life, life which had carved his mouth into such sorrow and had set hollows underneath his eyes, which had given him dreams of love in his youth and then had robbed him, had given him dreams in his age of free islands in a blue and tropic sea and had held him locked in a drab house in a little town. And as cruel as anything was death, which revealed him like this, when he was helpless any longer to hide that which alive he had hidden. She went away crying most passionately to her heart, “We ought all to be free. Everybody ought to be free for himself, somehow. No one ought to come to death and never have known what freedom is.” When”
― Pearl S. Buck, This Proud Heart: A Novel

“but in her everything lasted. She had all she ever had. Everything she had, the home she and Mark had made, his death, Blake’s sharp and passionate love to make her know herself a woman, the children—she had all of it forever, to be the rich experience from which she drew her life, her life which was so much more than her mortal”
― Pearl S. Buck, This Proud Heart: A Novel