Now, Voyager Quotes

“Don't let's ask for the moon! We have the stars!”
― Olive Higgins Prouty , Now, Voyager

“I will get a cat and a parrot and live alone in single blessedness.”
― Olive Higgins Prouty, Now, Voyager

“Oh, well, naturally I’ve read a few novels. And then, too," she went on, “there are broad plays and musical shows and moving pictures for giving information to inexperienced but curious spinsters like me.”
― Olive Higgins Prouty, Now, Voyager

“No, I wasn’t going to refer to cowardice. What I was going to say was, that a man contemplating suicide should bear in mind that his act is usually paid for by others. It is not just his personal affair. Everyone who takes his or her own life increases the fear in all his progeny of committing the same act during a period of depression. In fact, every blood relation he possesses gets a drop of the same poison. Nice parting gift.”
― Olive Higgins Prouty, Now, Voyager

“Opening his eyes, gazing at the vastness above, below, and all around, J.D. inquired, “Do you believe in immortality?” as casually as if inquiring if she believed in free trade. “I don’t know. Do you?” “I don’t know either. I want terribly to believe that there’s a chance for such happiness as this to be carried on somehow, somewhere, if not in this life, then in the next.”
― Olive Higgins Prouty, Now, Voyager