H.E. Bates Quotes

“All day, after two days and nights of rain, water had been rising in the dykes and now it was creeping rapidly up the five stone arches of the bridge where the she stood watching the wide rainy valley up which the tongue of river finally lost itself in a gray country of winter elms.”

“All day, after two days and nights of rain, water had been rising in the dykes and now it was creeping rapidly up the five stone arches of the bridge where the she stood watching the wide rainy valley up which the tongue of river finally lost itself in a gray country of winter elms.”

“Just because I’ve been gone from this country for most of my life doesn’t mean I understand it any less. When I was fifteen I left Jamaica. I knew that I was a lesbian then and, because of what I looked like, I was an out lesbian. It was hard for me. It was hard for the thirteen years I was in England, for various reasons, and it’s going to be difficult here as well. I don’t anticipate anything being easy. But I’d rather suffer the chance of someone accosting me for being a dyke than suffer the emotional violence I’d do to myself if I wasn’t honest about who I am.”

“By gnawing through a dyke even a rat may drown a nation.”

“By gnawing through a dyke even a rat may drown a nation.”

“We must constantly build dykes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.”

“The summer of 2002 at the Wilson birthday party I met Van Dyke again and I made plans to have dinner with him.”

“Look around for a place to sow a few seeds.”

“Use what talents you possess the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best. ”

“I never even had a bachelorhood: I went straight from my parents' home to a marriage.”

“Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.”