Kate Seredy Quotes

One had to be so careful ... about remembering things. Thinking and remembering were something like walking along well-known paths and passageways that always used to lead to something lovely ... but now, the same paths and passageways might end in something dead or frightening.
Yes, one had to walk on tiptoe, remembering to look carefully ahead and turn quickly away before one was faced with something ruined or dead. The thing to do was to make little tunnels or thoughtways, from now to once-upon-a-time, each leading to a lovely thing to remember.

I make money using my brains and lose money listening to my heart. But in the long run my books balance pretty well.

[My stories were] an excuse for making pictures.

Nothing fine and noble will ever perish from the earth as long as there are hearts to remember.

Kill the snake of doubt in your soul, crush the worms of fear in your heart and mountains will move out of your way.

Nothing ever dies that's worth remembering.

(W)hen a load is too heavy for one horse to pull, what do we do? Hitch another to it, don't we? That's just common sense. Well, son, things that sort of weigh on a man's mind and heart may be too heavy for him to make much headway with alone.