“Saddle your dreams before you ride em.”
Mary Webb“Nature's music is never over; her silences are pauses, not conclusions.”
Mary Webb“Saddle your dreams before you ride em.”
Mary Webb“Saddle your dreams afore you ride 'em.”
Mary Webb“It's the folks that depend on us for this and for the other that we most do miss.”
Mary Webb“It made me gladsome to be getting some education it being like a big window opening.”
Mary Webb“Beguildy looked at me over the rim of a great measure of mead. 'Saddle your dreams afore you ride 'em, my wench,' he said.”
Mary Webb, Precious Bane“I thought she had a good heart, though not much respectability- or maybe it was because of that.”
Mary Webb, Precious Bane“She had so deep a kinship with the trees, so intuitive a sympathy with leaf and flower, that it seemed as if the blood in her veins was not slow-moving human blood, but volatile sap.”
Mary Webb, Gone to Earth“The past is only the present become invisible and mute”
its memoried glances and its murmurs are infinitely precious.