Old Lovegood Girls Quotes

“How could you feel so bound up with the idea of what someone meant to you, yet feel no urge to get in touch with the real person?”
― Gail Godwin, Old Lovegood Girls

“After I woke from my dream within a dream, I clung to what you’d said in the dream about “reference auras.” It seemed to point to a way of trying to live with this unbearable absence. Once someone is in your reference aura, they stay there forever. Couldn’t forever include after death? I mean, if someone has died, they are still in your reference aura and so continue to grow in your heart like a living person. That little boy Ritchie was carrying in his arms was about a year old. “This is the way we do it,” Ritchie said in the dream, and perhaps this is the way to do it.”
― Gail Godwin, Old Lovegood Girls

“Merry didn’t believe Feron had any idea of her homesickness. Now Ritchie
was the complete opposite. He loved being away from home and at twelve
was making plans for traveling the world. What made him different? Did
people who weren’t homesick carry their home inside them? And then there
were people who wanted to forget the home they came from. She knew Feron
must be one of these.”
― Gail Godwin, Old Lovegood Girls

“We could all do with some silence, just sitting back
in a dark theater and watching humans living and working and
discovering their affinities without any words.”
― Gail Godwin, Old Lovegood Girls