Quotes by Roman Payne, The Wanderess

“When no possessions keep us, when no countries contain us, and no time detains us, man becomes a heroic wanderer, and woman, a wanderess.”

“What is a Wanderess? Bound by no boundaries, contained by no countries, tamed by no time, she is the force of natures course.”

“Never did the world make a queen of a girl who hides in houses and dreams without traveling.”

“She was a free bird one minute: queen of the world and laughing. The next minute she would be in tears like a porcelain angel, about to teeter, fall and break. She never cried because she was afrai...”

“When I was younger, I would cling to life because life was at the top of the turning wheel. But like the song of my gypsy-girl, the great wheel turns over and lands on a minor key. It is then that ...”

“I cursed myself. For once, heaven had sent me "Beauty" in its most perfected form and I abandoned it. She might not have been a girl after all but an angel: a force to guide me on this hazardous pa...”

“Without knowing why or how, I found myself in love with this strange Wanderess. Maybe I was just in love with the dream she was selling me: a life of destiny and fate; as my own life up until we me...”

“Those things: Mystery, Fate, and Enchantment... they are things that young people offer us as soon as we get close to them. And if were not careful, we can be seduced by, and drawn back into, the y...”

“What a face this girl possessed!Could I neither die then nor gaze at her face every day, I would need to recreate it through painting or sculpture, or through fatherhood, until a second such face c...”

“I saw this moment as attached by threads to eternity and woven between all the other braided moments of my past and my future.”

“Although I love elegant parties, dancing and dining and spending the night with a sweet woman in my arms, my life belongs to literature.”

“, wine!, the truth-serum so potent that all those who wish to live happy lives should abstain from drinking it entirely!... except of course when they are alone.”

“The disappearance of the presence of beauty is the most despairing of events on this time-wheel of ours that rolls onward towards death.”

“In my errant life I roamedTo learn the secrets of women and men,Of gods and dreams.I've known all the countries of our world,I've lived a thousand lives:Many lives I lived in love, Other lives I sq...”

“The comedy in our lives was those first few weeks we lived together in Paris: Our bodies desired one another, our souls opened for one another. We experienced all of the happiness and anguish of fi...”

“Never had we ever kissed as lovers; if we touched lips it was as brother and sister. In one moment of emotion, our lips fell together by accident, but we quickly removed ourselves as though we were...”

“I knelt and locked the door. I locked the door locking the world and time outside. I stretched my body across the mattress and Saskia drew in close to me and placed her open hand on my chest, her m...”

“It is only in the peach innocence of youth that life is at its crest on top of the wheel. And there being only life, the young cling to it, they fear death... And they should! ...For they are in life.”

“Intoxication, like sexual euphoria, is the privilege of the human animal.”

“She is my morning, she is my evening; we have a love that blooms over and again, more beautifully each time than the last.”