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Imogen Hermes Gowar QUOTES

Imogen Hermes Gowar QUOTES

1 " I am cognisant, as those gentlemen are not, that all pleasures have their cost. "

― Imogen Hermes Gowar , The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock

2 " A man who is pleased to collect up the pins as he strips her is a rare jewel. "

― Imogen Hermes Gowar , The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock

3 " For class is a type of bubble, a membrane around one, and although one might grow within this membrane, and strain against it, it is impossible to break free from it. And a man of nobility is always such in his soul, however he may fall; and a man of humble sort is always such in his soul, however he may climb. "

― Imogen Hermes Gowar , The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock

4 " Any gentleman can tell a lie; any scoundrel can talk truth. "

― Imogen Hermes Gowar , The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock

5 " He only mourns their child, who passed so swiftly from birth to death, exchanging one oblivion for another like a sleeper rolling over. "

― Imogen Hermes Gowar , The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock

6 " The stories are of men who, walking on the shore, hear sweet voices far away, see a soft white back turned to them, and - heedless of looming clouds and creaking winds - forget their children's hands and the click of their wives' needles, all for the sake of the half-seen face behind a tumble of gale-tossed greenish hair. "

― Imogen Hermes Gowar , The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock

7 " As to her education..." says Angelica.
"'Tis done," says Mrs Lippard. "Her school could do no more for her."
"I learned nothing," growls Sukie.
"You read every book they had."
"If I had known there were so few, I would have read slower. "

― Imogen Hermes Gowar , The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock

8 " For mermaids are the most unnatural of creatures and their hearts are empty of love. "

― Imogen Hermes Gowar , The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock

9 " She is such a conduit of rage, it is a wonder she does not catch alight. "

― Imogen Hermes Gowar , The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock

10 " All cats are grey with the candles out. "

― Imogen Hermes Gowar , The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock

11 " First I sink,
Then I trickle,
Then I rush.
I am here; and here; and here. I touch this surface and also that.
I mingle, I quiver with a thousand voices, and all these voices my own. I am a great tumble of motion which torrents all in unison.
And learning and knowing are the same, and I am a mite, and we are all the space allowed to us.
And if I am made of grief, well! Here is joy, and if I am made a fury, here is peace. Rush, rush, we rush, a sparkling stream through rock and moss, deep in the cold stone of the earth. No daylight here, no dying breaths to catch up. We rush young and bright, and ever-widening, and these bitter atoms are lost in new-minted freshness. We hasten, hasten, onward to the boundless sea. "

― Imogen Hermes Gowar , The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock

12 " This is, however, the age of unlikely ascents. "

― Imogen Hermes Gowar , The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock

13 " A loss is not a void. A loss is a presence all its own; a loss takes up space; a loss is born just as any other thing that lives. "

― Imogen Hermes Gowar , The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock

14 " And yours is what is called a house of ill repute.’
‘Nobody calls my house that. I have an excellent reputation. "

― Imogen Hermes Gowar , The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock

15 " Angelica knows about women and their empire-building. She knows also that a woman in perfect control of her fate never resorts to rudeness, and this gives her a small glow of satisfaction. She clasps Mrs Lippard’s hand and smiles her most honeyed of smiles. "

― Imogen Hermes Gowar , The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock

16 " A whore is a whore is a whore. "

― Imogen Hermes Gowar , The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock

17 " I cry out and there is a dull nothing. "

― Imogen Hermes Gowar , The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock

18 " where horizon to horizon is spanned by shifting twinkling faithless water, a wave humps its back and turns over with a sigh, and sends its salted whispering to Mr Hancock's ear. "

― Imogen Hermes Gowar , The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock

19 " And a man of nobility is always such in his soul, however he may fall; and a man of humble sort is always such in his soul, however he may rise. "

― Imogen Hermes Gowar , The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock

20 " too much of a muchness "

― Imogen Hermes Gowar , The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock