Source: The Candymakers
“In any field, find the strangest thing and then explore it.”
“Isn't life the strangest thing you've ever seen?”
Lines written for "Polly Vandersma", in I've Heard the Mermaids Singing (1987)
“once in awhile you get shown the light, in the strangest of places if you look it right”
“Once in a while, you get shown the light, in the strangest of places, if you look at it right.”
"Scarlet Begonias"
Song lyrics, (1974)
On life in hiding from Nazi authorities, p. 48
To Save a Life: Stories of Holocaust Rescue (2000)
Context: One of the things I learned, one of the strangest things, is how to think. There was nothing else to do. I couldn't see people, or go for a walk in the forest. All I had was my head and my books, and I thought a lot. I learned, because there was no interruption. I had access to myself, to my thinking. I wouldn't say that I particularly matured. The thinking was physics thinking. I was just short of twenty-two then.
I was in hiding for two years and two months, something like that. In all that time I went out very, very little, just once in a great while, after dark. Once I even took the train to Utrecht, forty miles from Amsterdam, with my yellow star, this star which I still have. Why did I go? I just wanted to visit some friends. I was a little bit crazy, a little bit insane.
“Instead of doing the best thing, we sometimes have to settle for the rightest thing.”
Source: Nineteen Minutes
“Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one’s own Trojan horse.”
Letter (20 August 1959), as quoted in Victoria Glendinning, Rebecca West: A Life (1987), Part 5, Chapter 8, p. 206
“Sometimes our best action result in things that are most regrettable.”
Source: Outlander
“Sometimes the nicest thing to do with a guitar is just look at it.”
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