One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.

- Gail Godwin

There are two kinds of people. One kind, you can just tell by looking at them at what point they congealed into their final selves. It might be a ver…

- Gail Godwin

The best antidote I have found is to yearn for something. As long as you yearn, you can't congeal: There is a forward motion to yearning.

- Gail Godwin

Something's your vocation if it keeps making more of you.

- Gail Godwin

How easy it was to make people happy, when you didn't want or need anything from them.

- Gail Godwin

The characters that I create are parts of myself and I send them on little missions to find out what I don’t know yet.

- Gail Godwin

The more you respect and focus on the singular and the strange, the more you become aware of the universal and infinite.

- Gail Godwin

Some things arrive in their own mysterious hour, on their own terms and not yours, to be seized or relinquished forever.

- Gail Godwin

Negative people present us with an accelereted personal growth opportunity.

- Gail Godwin