The Golden Willow Quotes

“What wonderful things dreams are! They can make you be anything you want and take you anyplace in the world.”
― Harry Bernstein, The Golden Willow: The Story of a Lifetime of Love

“There is one more touch that I have added to make it all complete. This is a bronze plaque that I had made for the bench. It has the names of Ruby and myself inscribed on it, and underneath are the words that express my feelings about Ruby and our life together. They come from the immortal Helen Keller, who more than anyone knew the true meaning of love. What we once enjoyed and deeply loved, we can never lose, for all that we love deeply becomes part of us.”
― Harry Bernstein, The Golden Willow: The Story of a Lifetime of Love

“THE WORLD IN WHICH I WAS LIVING WHEN THE BOOK WAS PUBLISHED was vastly different from the one that I had written about. It was, after all, nearly a hundred years later. Advances had been made in every field—science, medicine, industry, transportation. We were enjoying greater material comforts in life, and we were experiencing greater longevity, so people like myself could be in their nineties and still function in as normal a fashion as young people, and even write books. But there were some things that hadn't changed, and one of them was human nature and the wars that it brought on.”
― Harry Bernstein, The Golden Willow: The Story of a Lifetime of Love

“Yes, I'd gone through that fantasy many times before, dreaming of having a book published and becoming a famous author, seeing my book displayed in bookstore windows, being interviewed by reporters, being asked for my autograph. What wonderful things dreams are! They can make you be anything you want and take you anyplace in the world. And some of them can actually come true, as this one had for me. In the meantime, I sat on that bench near the lake wishing it had all taken place”
― Harry Bernstein, The Golden Willow: The Story of a Lifetime of Love