Mary Cantwell Quotes

• Gardeners, I think, dream bigger dreams than Emperor's.

  Mary Cantwell

  Dream, Garden, Thinking

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• Silence was the cure, if only temporarily, silence and geography. But of what was I being cured? I do not know, have never known. I only know the cure. Silence, and no connections except to landscape.

  Mary Cantwell

  Happiness, Silence, Landscape

  Mary Cantwell (1995). “Manhattan, When I Was Young”, p.89, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• La ficción de misterio es, después de todo, un sustituto de los tranquilizantes, la bebida fuerte y las malas, aunque divertidas, compañías. Uno se mete en la cama... en el tren... en la silla de la habitación del enfermo... y de repente se ve transportado a un lugar donde la luz lucha contra la oscuridad y gana. Cuando la historia termina, uno se queda sin resaca, sin remordimientos. ¿Puede algún otro opiáceo hacer esa afirmación?

  Mary Cantwell

  Strong, Hangover, Dark

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• Meanwhile, as we read, two little girls slept as if couched on zephyrs on the south side of the parlor floor, in a room that had bunny wallpaper...and a bookcase crammed with the collected Beatrix Potter. Snow White was in a youth bed and Rose Red was in a crib, and next to them was the little blue and white guest room that one of them would have one day. Because I recognize emotions only in retrospect, I didn't know that I was happy. As always, there was something nagging at my mind's corners. But I did know that I had all that it is proper in this world to wish for.

  Mary Cantwell

  Happiness, Girl, Blue

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• I had wanted to come back to Greenwich Village ever since I had left Waverly Place, and since moving to West Eleventh Street, I have never lived anyplace else. I do not want to. That is not because of what the Village is but because of what I have made it, and what I have made it depends on who I am at the time.

  Mary Cantwell

  Happiness, Moving, Who I Am

  Mary Cantwell (1995). “Manhattan, when I was Young”, p.88, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I was, after all, the daughter of a man who believed that to be involved with books was to live at the heart of light, and the former wife of a man who shared his faith.

  Mary Cantwell

  Book, Heart, Light

  "Manhattan Memoir".

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• Like most people, most Westerners anyway, I have a sneaking suspicion I am immortal.

  Mary Cantwell

  People, Immortality, Suspicion

  Mary Cantwell (1995). “Manhattan, When I Was Young”, p.112, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• the hymns were born in the fifteenth or sixteenth century or earlier, and listening to them was like licking an icicle: the same chill, the same purity.

  Mary Cantwell

  Music, Hymns, Listening

  Mary Cantwell (1992). “Manhattan Memoir”, Penguin Group USA

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• In giving our daughter life, her father and I had also given her death, something I hadn't realized until that new creature flailed her arms in what was now infinite space. We had given her disease and speeding cars and flying cornices: once out of the fortress that had been myself, she would never be safe again ... We disappoint our kids and they disappoint us, and sometimes they grow up into people we don't like very much. We go on loving, though what we love may be more memory than actuality. And until the day we die we fear the phone that rings in the middle of the night.

  Mary Cantwell

  Daughter, Growing Up, Memories

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