Nowhere Else on Earth Quotes

“I wanted him to be a poet. I wanted him to adventure out into the world and learn its ways, not losing himself in the jumble of life but seeing it in the poet's eye, and withdrawing after in the library room where he could write his poems of revelation. He would tell what he had seen. He never wrote a word in his life. But he did see.”
― Josephine Humphreys, Nowhere Else on Earth

“He was in a state of wonder most of the time, the way a young boy is--engaged by the most ordinary things as if they were great miracles.”
― Josephine Humphreys, Nowhere Else on Earth

“I'm not sure whether or not any love matches are made in heaven, but some do suggest heaven had a hand in the introductions.”
― Josephine Humphreys, Nowhere Else on Earth

“My mother had said I could give Henry nothing he needed, but she forgot that love is a mystery, not a bargain. It springs up, not to answer a need but to make one”
― Josephine Humphreys, Nowhere Else on Earth

“I didn't want to help him or cooperate in even the smallest way, because he failed me. I held it against him, that he was not the man I'd made him out to be”
― Josephine Humphreys, Nowhere Else on Earth

“My mother had told me that when she tended the sick, even those times when death was certain and no medicine would help, she always had a secret selfish reason for continuing: because the one who gives comfort is comforted”
― Josephine Humphreys, Nowhere Else on Earth

“What has Flora Sampson done to deserve love more than Margaret, or any other girl? Was it only a man's love that could keep girls safe?”
― Josephine Humphreys, Nowhere Else on Earth

“What ha Flora Sampson done to deserve love more than Margaret, or any other girl? Was it only a man's love that could keep girls safe?”
― Josephine Humphreys, Nowhere Else on Earth