The Fountain Overflows Quotes

“You must always believe that life is as extraordinary as music says it is.”
― Rebecca West, The Fountain Overflows

“Yes,” said Mamma, “this is the worst of life, that love does not give us common sense but is a sure way of losing it. We love people, and we say that we are going to do more for them than friendship, but it makes such fools of us that we do far less, indeed sometimes what we do could be mistaken for the work of hatred.”
― Rebecca West, The Fountain Overflows

“She understood children, and knew that they were adults handicapped by a humiliating disguise and had their adult qualities within them.”
― Rebecca West, The Fountain Overflows

“Now, he told me, I could see what humanity was worth. It could form the conception of justice, but could not trust its flesh to provide judges. Whatever it started was likely to end in old men raving. There was ruin everywhere and we should see more of it.”
― Rebecca West, The Fountain Overflows

“but it is not what one does so much as the way that while one does it time runs past forever.”
― Rebecca West, The Fountain Overflows