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Snowfed Waters QUOTES

Snowfed Waters QUOTES

1 " I was wrenched awake at the tail-end of a stifled scream. I fought my way up from a deep dark dream. The scream had been mine. "

― Jane Wilson-Howarth , Snowfed Waters

2 " The mountains were so wild and so stark and so very beautiful that I wanted to cry. I breathed in another wonderful moment to keep safe in my heart. "

― Jane Wilson-Howarth , Snowfed Waters

3 " getting angry and harbouring bitterness doesn’t help anybody, least of all the angry bitter person. "

― Jane Wilson-Howarth , Snowfed Waters

4 " no-one would want to go through a traumatic experience but when you’ve survived something life-shattering and risen above it, you achieve a kind of serenity. "

― Jane Wilson-Howarth , Snowfed Waters

5 " I wished I could paint this ineffable beauty but I had never been artistic. I hadn’t even packed a camera, and my phone was out of charge. It didn’t matter. I just breathed in the feeling, savouring it. Suddenly I knew that I’d enjoy many more moving moments and visions of beauty, and that they’d sustain me for the rest of my life. "

― Jane Wilson-Howarth , Snowfed Waters

6 " We found a smooth inviting boulder under a vast banyan tree, and sat in companionable silence. There unexpectedly, on that rock, I saw the secret of contentment. True happiness is only ever possible if you have been unhappy. And there, at that moment, I couldn’t remember the last time I had felt so peaceful. It wouldn’t have been possible for me to take in any more happiness.
Moti turned to me and smiled as if she knew. I realised then that this moment and this wonderful feeling would sustain me for a long, long time. "

― Jane Wilson-Howarth , Snowfed Waters

7 " ... how could Britain operate in India for 300 years and take so little back from it in terms of understanding? "

― Jane Wilson-Howarth , Snowfed Waters

8 " I reckon that blaming people fixes nothing. You're the only person who is going to sort you out. No-one else really can - or really cares, enough. That's what Nepalis know - better than anyone. That's our Western disease. Don't take responsibility. Take on a lawyer! "

― Jane Wilson-Howarth , Snowfed Waters

9 " Good writers are like magpies, attracted to shiny things and storing away treasures -
pieces of dialogue and experience - which pop up from memory unexpectedly. "

― Jane Wilson-Howarth , Snowfed Waters

10 " The river is such a tranquil place, a place to sit and think of romance and the beauty of nature, to enjoy the elegance of swans and the chance of a glimpse of a kingfisher. "

― Jane Wilson-Howarth , Snowfed Waters

11 " Blood-coloured bottlebrush trees and scarlet hibiscus looked too bright for this devastated world. "

― Jane Wilson-Howarth , Snowfed Waters

12 " I think of the irony that in our language [Nepali] the word for love can also mean deceit. "

― Jane Wilson-Howarth , Snowfed Waters

13 " Buddhist mantras are deliberately deep yet superficially meaningless - to take your mind off things "

― Jane Wilson-Howarth , Snowfed Waters

14 " [the doctor] clicked by mistake on the notes of a patient she'd got to know well - too well. The unfortunate Mrs. Swayne had become unhealthily doctor-dependent. But had she grasped the nettle? Had she actually finally and against all predictions left the country? "

― Jane Wilson-Howarth , Snowfed Waters