“She was a royal child. She knew that golden shoes pinch and there is no escaping them.”
The Gentle Falcon (1957)
Context: When she saw the children jumping first upon one bare foot and then upon the other, she envied them and wished that she, too, could run barefooted for a little while.
For a little while. She was a royal child. She knew that golden shoes pinch and there is no escaping them. <!-- p. 94
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British writer 1896–1974Related quotes
“One of the most difficult of the philosopher's tasks is to find out where the shoe pinches.”
Source: 1910s, Notebooks 1914-1916, p. 61
Song lyrics, The Red Shoes (1993)
“She could not complain about not having shoes when the person she was talking to had no legs.”
Source: The Thing Around Your Neck
“The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.”
Source: Modern Man in Search of a Soul, p. 69
“When she wanted to escape her life, she read books”
Source: Between the Lines
Then if you ask your grandmother whether she knew about Peter Pan when she was a girl, she also says, "Why, of course, I did, child," but if you ask her whether he rode on a goat in those days, she says she never heard of his having a goat. Perhaps she has forgotten, just as she sometimes forgets your name and calls you Mildred, which is your mother's name. Still, she could hardly forget such an important thing as the goat. Therefore there was no goat when your grandmother was a little girl. This shows that, in telling the story of Peter Pan, to begin with the goat (as most people do) is as silly as to put on your jacket before your vest.
Of course, it also shows that Peter is ever so old, but he is really always the same age, so that does not matter in the least.
Source: The Little White Bird (1902), Ch. 14
Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes
Song lyrics, Graceland (1986)
“There'd been no escape. What did she so desire to escape from?”
Source: The Crying of Lot 49 (1966), Chapter 1
Context: There'd been no escape. What did she so desire to escape from? Such a captive maiden, having plenty of time to think, soon realizes that her tower, its height and architecture, are like her ego only incidental: and what really keeps her where she is is magic, anonymous and malignant, visited upon her from outside and for no reason at all. Having no apparatus except gut fear and female cunning to examine this formless magic, to understand how it works, how to measure its field strength, count its lines of force, she may fall back on superstition, or take up a useful hobby like embroidery, or go mad, or marry a disc jockey. If the tower is everywhere and the knight of deliverance no proof against its magic, what else?