Marguerite Gardiner Quotes

I think certainly if I'd started getting published when I was in my early twenties, I was quite sheltered then and didn't know anything much about the world. I hadn't had any direct experience of how the world works.

It was not fair, it was not fair, it was not fair. So cried his child's heart, and then his child's heart died a little. For that is also the way of the world.

Maybe innocence is a skin you must shed to build layers more resistant to the caustic truths of the world.

The world shrieks and sinks talons into our hearts. This we call memory.

I don't know how the heart withstands it.

I know enough of the world now to have almost lost the capacity of being much surprised by anything

He who best knows the world will love it least.

I can't go on flying apart just for those who want the benefit of a few verbal kicks. My God, do you know what poems like that cost? They're not written vicariously: they come out of actual suffering, real madness.

To know the world, not love her, is thy point; She gives but little, nor that little, long.

What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is, for the most part, incommunicable.

Alas! innocence is but a poor substitute for experience.

...the heart has no tears to give,--it drops only blood, bleeding itself away in silence.

Each of us has something within us which won't be denied, even if it makes us scream aloud to die. We are what we are, that's all. Like the old Celtic legend of the bird with the thorn in its breast, singing its heart out and dying. Because it has to, its self-knowledge can't affect or change the outcome, can it? Everyone singing his own little song, convinced it's the most wonderful song the world has ever heard. Don't you see? We create our own thorns, and never stop to count the cost. All we can do is suffer the pain, and tell ourselves it was well worth it.

Had I not been bound to silence I could have provided proof enough of a broken heart, even for you.

It's easy to do nothing, but your heart breaks a little more every time you do.

If you knew me in the past, please do not think that I am the same person that you are meeting today. I have experienced more of life, I have encountered new depths in those I love, I have suffered and prayed and I am different.

The things that break your heart when you think there's nothing left to break

Grief hallows hearts, even while it ages heads.

I think every time you get your heart broken, there's a little piece of it that chips away, and I don't think you ever get that piece back. But I think you're able to bandage it with time and with new people and other things that make you happy.

Now I am setting out into the unknown. It will take me a long while to work through the grief. There are no shortcuts; it has to be gone through.

Every year there's a few more things I'm not sure of. I've decided that a wide-ranging uncertainty is the mark of the true maturity of man.

She broke my heart. I didn't like that much. But that was the price. In this world, you get what you pay for.

There were only so many ways a man‟s heart could break, and he had a feeling his couldn‟t survive another puncture.

tell me how does it feel with my teeth in your heart!