"Till We Have Faces" Quotes
A retelling of the Cupid and Psyche myth exploring the nature of love and the human experience.
fiction | 313 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing — to reach the Mountain, to find the place where all the beauty came from — my country, the place where I ought to have been born.
You can't explain it, but you can see it. It's like the wind.
I know now, Lord, why you utter no answer. You are yourself the answer. Before your face questions die away.
I saw well why the gods do not speak to us openly, nor let us answer. Till that word can be dug out of us, why should they hear the babble that we think we mean?
The world is so old, and I am so young, I was young when the world was old.
It was when I was happiest that I longed most. The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing — to reach the Mountain, to find the place where all the beauty came from — my country, the place where I ought to have been born.
The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing to find the place where all the beauty came from.
No one who has read a fairy tale would ever mistake it for a description of a child’s world.
The complaint was the answer. To have heard myself making it was to be answered.
For I know now. As I knew long ago. Whom I really serve.
