Caroline Stevermer famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

How dreadful...to be caught up in a game and have no idea of the rules.
-- Caroline Stevermer

#Life #Games #Ideas
Faris turned on him. "Why choose to wear black today, of all days? I know why I'm in black. Why are you? Mourning? He looked startled. "One does not wear mourning for a servant." You still don't understand, do you? He was not my servant." He regarded her anger, aghast. "What then? What else could he be? Her empty hands shook as she held them out to him. Her voice shook as she replied, "Glove to my hand." Slowly she closed her fists. "Everything.
-- Caroline Stevermer

#Hands #Voice #Mourning
You must form your own fashions in a way which demonstrates that you flout the standards from knowledge, not from ignorance. . . But I may flout the standards? . . . Of course. What do you think standards are for?
-- Caroline Stevermer

#Fashion #Ignorance #Thinking
Luckily for you," he said, "you shed hairpins the way Hansel and Gretel shed crumbs. I followed your trail." He pressed a half dozen hairpins into the palm of my left hand. "Now let us return to light, safety, and society.
-- Caroline Stevermer

#Light #Hands #Safety
Thomas reached out and took my hand, turned it palm up, and said, "I believe that's healing very nicely." Aunt Charlotte opened the door just as he turned my hand over again and brushed a kiss across my knuckles. I experienced a nearly overpowering desire to hit him in the eye.
-- Caroline Stevermer

#Believe #Eye #Healing
One is either packed or unpacked. There is no middle ground.
-- Caroline Stevermer

#Middle
Now let us return to light, safety, and society.
-- Caroline Stevermer

#Light #Safety #Return

Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose, But young men think it is, and we were young.
Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young.
The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.
Life is just a chance to grow a soul.
For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.
The World Series is played in my doubtless too-nostalgic imagination in some kind of autumn afternoon light, and seeing it exclusively in the bitter chill of midnight breaks the spell of even the best of games.
The truth and the facts aren't necessarily the same thing. Telling the truth is the object of all art; facts are what the unimaginative have instead of ideas.
Ideas may drift into other minds, but they do not drift my way. I have to go and fetch them. I know no work manual or mental to equal the appalling heart-breaking anguish of fetching an idea from nowhere.
Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas.
The Tarot embodies symbolical presentations of universal ideas, behind which lie all the implicits of the human mind, and it is in this sense that they contain secret doctrine, which is the realization by the few of truths embedded in the consciousness of all.

Caroline Stevermer famous quotes

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