What if her father and mother could not recognize her now if they saw her? In her flesh they slept serenely, loved and loving, not as remembered faces, nor in any arrested act or posture, but as her blood running softly in her veins, as the beat of her heart and the drawing of her breath.


Ship of Fools (1962)

Katherine Anne Porter Quotes

What if her father and mother could not recognize her now if they saw her? In her flesh they slept serenely, loved and loving, not as remembered...

What if her father and mother could not recognize her now if they saw her? In her flesh they slept serenely, loved and loving, not as remembered...

What if her father and mother could not recognize her now if they saw her? In her flesh they slept serenely, loved and loving, not as remembered...

What if her father and mother could not recognize her now if they saw her? In her flesh they slept serenely, loved and loving, not as remembered...