We are tomorrow’s past.
—Mary Webb
Topics: Change
The past is only the present become invisible and mute; and because it is invisible and mute, its memorized glances and its murmurs are infinitely precious. We are tomorrow’s past.
—Mary Webb
Topics: The Past, Past
Nature’s music is never over; her silences are pauses, not conclusions.
—Mary Webb
Topics: Nature
The divine egoism that is genius.
—Mary Webb
Topics: Genius
If you stop to be kind, you must swerve often from your path.
—Mary Webb
Topics: Kindness
To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary nature, leaving their mentality untouched, their self-possession intact. They are not burnt by even the red fire of physical passion – far less by the white fire of love.
—Mary Webb
Topics: Marriage
Saddle your dreams before you ride em.
—Mary Webb
Topics: Ideals, Idealism
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