Death Quote by Barbara Pym — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“She knew exactly how she ought to feel, for she was well read in our greater and lesser English poets, but the unfortunate fact was that she did not really like being kissed at all.”

“Also, it was the morning and it seemed a little odd to be thinking about poetry before luncheon.”

“I'll have that someday, thought Peter. Someone who'll kiss me good-bye at the door. Or maybe just someone to put a blindfold over my head before they shoot me. Depending on how things turn out.”

“You need to be greedy or ignorant to truly want to live forever.”

“How come some stories have an ending when they never had a starting?”

“I do not ever remember to have trembled at a tale of superstition or to have feared the apparition of a spirit. Darkness had no effect upon my fancy, and a churchyard was to me merely the receptacle of bodies deprived of life, which, from being the seat of beauty and strength, had become food for the worm.”

“Almondine”

“Come here, let me share a bit of wisdom with you.”