The Bastard Princess Quotes

“One day they are ours, a part of our family, our lives, as vital and colourful as every field and flower, and then one day they are a shadow, flitting at the edge of our vision, inconstant and wavering like a silhouette reflected in a sun-dappled pond in the spring light. Like”
― G. Lawrence, The Bastard Princess

“think that we come to understand that home is as much the people that we love as the bricks that shelter our bodies.”
― G. Lawrence, The Bastard Princess

“true friendships, I believe, come from people who are not able to be always or forever with each other, and although the passage of time may cause them to spread apart for months, or years, when they come back together again, they are able to fall into conversation as though they had only seen each other the day before. In that ease, that acceptance and awareness of minds, therein lays true friendship.”
― G. Lawrence, The Bastard Princess

“The home we are given to grow up in is not always the home we settle in later in life. For some, the home of childhood is a happy place which will ever be their comfort and safety. Others, not gifted with that same luck may later carve out their own home and hopefully, fill it with the love they were not offered when they were children.   But in whatever form, we all need a home.   I think that we come to understand that home is as much the people that we love as the bricks that shelter our bodies. It is the warmth in the eyes of a friend and the welcome at the end of a day. In many ways we make our home in the hearts of those we love, and doing so, we find our home wherever we find our friends.”
― G. Lawrence, The Bastard Princess

“There are some people with whom the importance of retaining a friendship is dependant upon seeing them every day, feeling their presence and hearing their voice. But true friendships, I believe, come from people who are not able to be always or forever with each other, and although the passage of time may cause them to spread apart for months, or years, when they come back together again, they are able to fall into conversation as though they had only seen each other the day before. In that ease, that acceptance and awareness of minds, therein lays true friendship.”
― G. Lawrence, The Bastard Princess

“Shame is an unpleasant emotion because it contains truth.”
― G. Lawrence, The Bastard Princess

“It was like a magic spell in a fairy story; if he could stop us seeing the worst of his pain, then it was not real. But I suppose we all need the blanket of fiction to make the worst of times manageable.”
― G. Lawrence, The Bastard Princess

“We all want people to think the best of us, to like us.   That is why when we tell them of us, of our lives and our adventures, we often omit that which does not show the best in our character. We do not lie, but we tell a half-truth. We conceal those parts of ourselves we do not like, and others will not like.   For in every person there is the light and the dark. There is the bold and the craven, the great… and the shameful.   We pick what parts of ourselves we share with others, and we leave the other parts to the darkness, where dreams may whisper what is true into our ear only.   Though we think that everyone may somehow see through our skin, be able to see the truth past our lies, this is not true… we are creatures made of paint and water.   We are but portraits of ourselves, painted by our own words and actions.”
― G. Lawrence, The Bastard Princess