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The Wanderess QUOTES

The Wanderess QUOTES

1 " When no possessions keep us, when no countries contain us, and no time detains us, man becomes a heroic wanderer, and woman, a wanderess. "

― Roman Payne , The Wanderess

2 " What is a Wanderess? Bound by no boundaries, contained by no countries, tamed by no time, she is the force of nature’s course. "

― Roman Payne , The Wanderess

3 " Never did the world make a queen of a girl who hides in houses and dreams without traveling. "

― Roman Payne , The Wanderess

4 " She was a free bird one minute: queen of the world and laughing. The next minute she would be in tears like a porcelain angel, about to teeter, fall and break. She never cried because she was afraid that something 'would' happen; she would cry because she feared something that could render the world more beautiful, 'would not' happen. "

― Roman Payne , The Wanderess

5 " When I was younger, I would cling to life because life was at the top of the turning wheel. But like the song of my gypsy-girl, the great wheel turns over and lands on a minor key. It is then that you come of age and life means nothing to you. To live, to die, to overdose, to fall in a coma in the street... it is all the same. It is only in the peach innocence of youth that life is at its crest on top of the wheel. And there being only life, the young cling to it, they fear death... And they should! ...For they are in life. "

― Roman Payne , The Wanderess

6 " Ô, wine!, the truth-serum so potent that all those who wish to live happy lives should abstain from drinking it entirely!... except of course when they are alone. "

― Roman Payne , The Wanderess

7 " When I was younger, I would cling to life because life was at the top of the turning wheel. But like the song of my gypsy girl, the great wheel turns over and lands on a minor key. It is then that you come of age and life means nothing to you. To live, to die, to overdose, to fall in a coma in the street... it is all the same. It is only in the peach innocence of youth that life is at its crest on top of the wheel. And there being only life, the young cling to it, they fear death… And they should! ...For they are 'in' life. "

― Roman Payne , The Wanderess

8 " Without knowing why or how, I found myself in love with this strange Wanderess. Maybe I was just in love with the dream she was selling me: a life of destiny and fate; as my own life up until we met had been so void of enchantment. Those things: mystery, fate, enchantment... they are things that young people offer us as soon as we get close to them. And if we're not careful, we can be seduced by, and drawn back into, the youthful world they preside over. "

― Roman Payne , The Wanderess

9 " Those things: Mystery, Fate, and Enchantment... they are things that young people offer us as soon as we get close to them. And if we’re not careful, we can be seduced by, and drawn back into, the youthful world the young preside over. "

― Roman Payne , The Wanderess

10 " What a face this girl possessed!—Could I neither die then nor gaze at her face every day, I would need to recreate it through painting or sculpture, or through fatherhood, until a second such face could be born. "

― Roman Payne , The Wanderess

11 " I saw this moment as attached by threads to eternity and woven between all the other braided moments of my past and my future. "

― Roman Payne , The Wanderess

12 " Although I love elegant parties, dancing and dining and spending the night with a sweet woman in my arms, my life belongs to literature. "

― Roman Payne , The Wanderess

13 " The disappearance of the presence of beauty is the most despairing of events on this time-wheel of ours that rolls onward towards death. "

― Roman Payne , The Wanderess

14 " In my errant life I roamed
To learn the secrets of women and men,
Of gods and dreams.
I've known all the countries of our world,
I've lived a thousand lives:
Many lives I lived in love,
Other lives I squandered.
For in my life I never traveled,
All I did was wander. "

― Roman Payne , The Wanderess

15 " The comedy in our lives was those first few weeks we lived together in Paris: Our bodies desired one another, our souls opened for one another. We experienced all of the happiness and anguish of first love. Those first few weeks in Paris, we barely touched lips; yet the few times we did, it had the force of a collision of stars. "

― Roman Payne , The Wanderess

16 " Never had we ever kissed as lovers; if we touched lips it was as brother and sister. In one moment of emotion, our lips fell together by accident, but we quickly removed ourselves as though we were children touching glass with dirty hands. "

― Roman Payne , The Wanderess

17 " I knelt and locked the door. I locked the door locking the world and time outside. I stretched my body across the mattress and Saskia drew in close to me and placed her open hand on my chest, her mouth near my shoulder; her breath, my breath blew out the candle, and I held my lost Wanderess with tenderness until sweet sleep overcame us. "

― Roman Payne , The Wanderess

18 " It is only in the peach innocence of youth that life is at its crest on top of the wheel. And there being only life, the young cling to it, they fear death... And they should! ...For they are in life. "

― Roman Payne , The Wanderess

19 " She is my morning, she is my evening; we have a love that blooms over and again, more beautifully each time than the last. You will see that we are not lovers like others, for whom love is both a punishment and a gift… Our love has never punished, only rewarded. Such love therein lies the eudaimonic life. "

― Roman Payne , The Wanderess

20 " Intoxication, like sexual euphoria, is the privilege of the human animal. "

― Roman Payne , The Wanderess