Dropseed Quotes

“Perhaps their unhappiness is merely a continuance of the endless, ancient stories of sadness, the same kind that has preyed upon centuries of minds - lost fortunes, failures, unrequited love, disconnection, undeserved illness, nameless pain of any kind. There is nothing new about wanting to hang a veil between sadness and sober conscience.”
― Nettie Magnan, Dropseed: The Story of Three Sad Women

“...she didn't realize until she was an old woman what she would have been better off realizing in her youth - that if she set her heart on being content, she could achieve it quite easily.”
― Nettie Magnan, Dropseed: The Story of Three Sad Women

“It’s a peculiar thing...that the true origin of one’s desire to create, the initial kindling of inspiration, that first generative seed, is always more or less unknown. The source of one’s creativity seems to evade a clear-cut understanding. No clear analysis can be made. It’s too subjective, too multifaceted. An artist can recount their reasons for what might have given them the idea to paint, sing, or write about this thing or that, but it remains a mystery how one person can experience the strange, inexplicable wave that leads to an idea, and then is pushed further by an impulse to pick up a tool and give birth to that idea, while another person, simply, cannot.”
― Nettie Magnan, Dropseed: The Story of Three Sad Women

“All human loneliness can be filtered down in one way or another to the singular, tragic element of silence...”
― Nettie Magnan, Dropseed: The Story of Three Sad Women